News tagged with facial muscles

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 / Medical 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

FDA warns of botulism with unapproved use of Botox

(AP) -- Health officials warned doctors and patients Thursday about potentially deadly risks of using the anti-wrinkle drug Botox and similar drugs for unapproved uses to treat certain types of muscle spasms.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Psychologists shed light on origins of morality

In everyday language, people sometimes say that immoral behaviours "leave a bad taste in your mouth". But this may be more than a metaphor according to new scientific evidence from the University of Toronto that shows a ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (13) | comments 8

Removing wrinkles with RHAMM

Hollywood stars of a certain age take note: Research at Berkeley Lab suggests that a protein linked to the spread of several major human cancers may also hold great potential for the elimination of wrinkles ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0