News tagged with facial muscles

Can cosmetic surgery tame its Wild West?

From US "Botox parties" to Asia's craze for eyelid jobs or Brazilian bum lifts, millions now reshape their bodies through cosmetic surgery each year.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New method of infant pain assessment

Recently, the accuracy of current methods of pain assessment in babies have been called into question. New research from London-area hospitals and the University of Oxford measures brain activity in infants to better understand ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Was Darwin wrong about emotions?

Contrary to what many psychological scientists think, people do not all have the same set of biologically "basic" emotions, and those emotions are not automatically expressed on the faces of those around us, according to ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Brain function involved in recovery of facial paralysis is different according to sex

Research work drawn up by specialists from the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at the University of Navarra Hospital has shown that, after surgical treatment for facial paralysis through using ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lack of empathy following traumatic brain injury linked to reduced responsiveness to anger

Egocentric, self-centred, and insensitive to the needs of others: these social problems often arise in people with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and have been attributed in part to a loss of emotional empathy, the capacity ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Surgical procedure appears to enhance smiles in children with facial paralysis

Transferring a segment of muscle from the thigh appears to help restore the ability to smile in children with facial paralysis just as it does in adults, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Facial Plastic Su ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Full face transplant Spaniard displays new look

(AP) -- A Spanish man who underwent the world's first full face transplant appeared before TV cameras Monday for the first time since his surgery, thanking his doctors and the family of the donor.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers suggest Botox can reduce ability to feel emotions

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers studying the effects of Botox, a chemical used to smooth out facial wrinkles, have found the paralysis of facial muscles can reduce feedback to the brain and in turn reduce the ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

'Mal-intent' may be the future of security

If Bob Burns is correct, terrorists may betray themselves someday by jiggling on a Nintendo Wii balance board, blinking too fast, curling a lip like Elvis -- or doing nothing at all. Burns and his team of scientists are researching ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 6

Scientist studies emotion in psychology, art and acting to help autistics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes our deepest emotions are written all over our faces. Stanford researcher David Wilkins is studying how people can be trained to better recognize facial emotions. He is studying drawing techniques ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Artificial muscles restore ability to blink, save eyesight

(PhysOrg.com) -- Surgeons from UC Davis Medical Center have demonstrated that artificial muscles can restore the ability of patients with facial paralysis to blink, a development that could benefit the thousands ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Facial expressions show language barriers too

(PhysOrg.com) -- People from East Asia tend to have a tougher time than those from European countries telling the difference between a face that looks fearful versus surprised, disgusted versus angry, and ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 8

Smile as you read this: Language that puts you in touch with your bodily feelings

Louis Armstrong sang, "When you're smilin', the whole world smiles with you." Romantics everywhere may be surprised to learn that psychological research has proven this sentiment to be true — merely seeing a smile (or a frown, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Dysport proves safe, effective anti-wrinkle treatment, plastic surgeons find

The new anti-wrinkle facial filler Dysport, which could be used as an alternative to Botox, noticeably reduced frown lines between the eyes, according to users and independent reviewers in a study involving ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Robot Learns to Smile and Frown (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A hyper-realistic Einstein robot at the University of California, San Diego has learned to smile and make facial expressions through a process of self-guided learning. The UC San Diego researchers ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4