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Facial nerve neurographies in intensive care unit-acquired weakness

open access: yesNeurological Research and Practice, 2023
Background Patients with an intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICU-AW) often present clinically with severe paresis of the limb and trunk muscles while facial muscles appear less affected. To investigate whether the facial nerves are partially spared
Maximilian Lochter   +3 more
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A practical approach to the patient presenting with dropped head [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Head drop, or having a dropped head, is an uncommon condition in which patients present with a disabling inability to lift their head. It may arise in many neurological conditions that can be divided into those with neuromuscular weakness of neck ...
Demicoli, Marija, Marsh, Eleanor A.
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Effect of a Facial Muscle Exercise Device on Facial Rejuvenation [PDF]

open access: yesAesthetic Surgery Journal, 2018
The efficacy of facial muscle exercises (FMEs) for facial rejuvenation is controversial. In the majority of previous studies, nonquantitative assessment tools were used to assess the benefits of FMEs.This study examined the effectiveness of FMEs using a Pao (MTG, Nagoya, Japan) device to quantify facial rejuvenation.Fifty females were asked to perform ...
Hwang, Ui-jae   +4 more
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On combining the facial movements of a talking head [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
We present work on Obie, an embodied conversational agent framework. An embodied conversational agent, or talking head, consists of three main components. The graphical part consists of a face model and a facial muscle model.
Bui, T.D.   +3 more
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Facial Motion Prior Networks for Facial Expression Recognition

open access: yes, 2019
Deep learning based facial expression recognition (FER) has received a lot of attention in the past few years. Most of the existing deep learning based FER methods do not consider domain knowledge well, which thereby fail to extract representative ...
Cai, Jianfei   +4 more
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Aiming for the stomach and hitting the heart: dissociable triggers and sources for disgust reactions. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Disgust reactions can be elicited using stimuli that engender orogastric rejection (e.g., pus and vomit; core disgust stimuli) but also using images of bloody injuries or medical procedures (e.g., surgeries; blood [body] boundary violation [B-BV] disgust
Mendes, Wendy Berry, Shenhav, Amitai
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The assesment of trigger points (TrPs) apperiance in masticatory muscles and cervical spine in patients with stomatognathic system (SS) disorders- preliminary reports

open access: yesJournal of Education, Health and Sport, 2019
Introduction: Increased tension around masticatory muscles can cause pain disorders in facial part of the skull, temporomandibular joint, supra- and infrahyoid area and cervical spine. Unphisiological muscle work bring up Trigger Points (TrPs).
Magdalena Gębska   +3 more
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Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) produce the same types of ‘laugh faces’ when they emit laughter and when they are silent [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The ability to flexibly produce facial expressions and vocalizations has a strong impact on the way humans communicate, as it promotes more explicit and versatile forms of communication. Whereas facial expressions and vocalizations are unarguably closely
Bard, Kim A.   +3 more
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Transgressions and expressions: Affective facial muscle activity predicts moral judgments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Recent investigations into morality suggest that affective responses may precede moral judgments. The present study investigated, first, whether individuals show specific facial affect in response to moral behaviors and, second, whether the intensity of
Cannon, PR, Schnall, S, White, M
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The CXCR4/SDF-1 Axis in the Development of Facial Expression and Non-somitic Neck Muscles

open access: yesFrontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020
Trunk and head muscles originate from distinct embryonic regions: while the trunk muscles derive from the paraxial mesoderm that becomes segmented into somites, the majority of head muscles develops from the unsegmented cranial paraxial mesoderm ...
Imadeldin Yahya   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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