Axonal mapping of the motor cranial nerves
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2023 Basic behaviors, such as swallowing, speech, and emotional expressions are the result of a highly coordinated interplay between multiple muscles of the head. Control mechanisms of such highly tuned movements remain poorly understood.
Vlad Tereshenko +20 more
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Motor-Incompatibility of Facial Reactions : The influence of valence and stimulus content on voluntary facial reactions [PDF]
, 2011 Emotional cues facilitate motor responses that are associated with approach or avoidance. Previous research has shown that evaluative processing of positive and negative facial expression stimuli is also linked to motor schemata of facial muscles.
Alpers, Georg W. +2 more
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Dynamic Facial Prosthetics for Sufferers of Facial Paralysis [PDF]
, 2011 BackgroundThis paper discusses the various methods and the materialsfor the fabrication of active artificial facial muscles. Theprimary use for these will be the reanimation of paralysedor atrophied muscles in sufferers of non-recoverableunilateral ...
Fergal Coulter +2 more
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Reproducibility of the dynamics of facial expressions in unilateral facial palsy [PDF]
, 2018 The aim of this study was to assess the reproducibility of non-verbal facial expressions in unilateral facial paralysis using dynamic four-dimensional (4D) imaging. The Di4D system was used to record five facial expressions of 20 adult patients.
Alagha, Mahmoud Amir +3 more
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Toxins, 2017 Botulinum toxin (BoNT) injections into facial and bulbar muscles are widely and increasingly used as medical treatments for cervical and facial dystonia, facial hemispasm, correction of facial palsy, hyperhidrosis, as well as cosmetic treatment of ...
Mohammad Alimohammadi +1 more
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Functional electrical stimulation of the facial muscles to improve symptoms in individuals with major depressive disorder: pilot feasibility study [PDF]
Biomed Eng Online, 2019 Naaz Kapadia +5 more
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Localization of brain stem motoneurons innervating the laryngeal muscles in the rufous horseshoe bat,rhinolophus rouxi [PDF]
, 1981 The motoneurons innervating the laryngeal muscles were localized in the rufous horseshoe bat,Rhinolophus rouxi, using the HRP method. HRP was applied to the cricothyroid muscle and to the cut end of the recurrent laryngeal nerve. Labeled motoneurons were
bowden +24 more
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Primate modularity and evolution: first anatomical network analysis of primate head and neck musculoskeletal system [PDF]
, 2018 Network theory is increasingly being used to study morphological modularity and integration. Anatomical network analysis (AnNA) is a framework for quantitatively characterizing the topological organization of anatomical structures and providing an ...
A Goswami +46 more
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Emotional Empathy and Facial Mimicry for Static and Dynamic Facial Expressions of Fear and Disgust
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Facial mimicry is the tendency to imitate the emotional facial expressions of others. Increasing evidence suggests that the perception of dynamic displays leads to enhanced facial mimicry, especially for happiness and anger.
Krystyna Rymarczyk +4 more
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Bilateral Facial Spasm Following Guillain–Barré Syndrome
Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements, 2018 Background: We report a patient who developed lower facial muscle spasm at rest and bilateral facial synkinesis several months after treatment of Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS); this finding, to our knowledge, is hitherto unreported.
Zain Guduru, John Morgan, Kapil Sethi
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