Can Dimple on Face is Affected by Blood Group?

Face and Word Recognition Can Be Selectively Affected by Brain Injury or Developmental Disorders

Face and word recognition have traditionally been thought to rely on highly specialised and relatively independent cognitive processes. Some of the strongest evidence for this has come from patients with seemingly category-specific visual perceptual deficits such as pure prosopagnosia, a selective face recognition deficit, and pure alexia, a selective word recognition deficit. Together, the pat...

Heart rate variability can be affected by gender, blood pressure, and insulin resistance

We really read with a great interest the paper by Durakoğlugil et al. (1) entitled “The effect of irritable bowel syndrome on carotid intimamedia thickness, pulse wave velocity, and heart rate variability” published in the September issue of Anatol J Cardiol 2014; 14: 525-30. They purposed to investigate a possible association between irritable bowel syndrome and autonomic dysfunction using hea...

Face recognition is similarly affected by viewpoint in school-aged children and adults

There is an ongoing debate on the question when face processing abilities mature. One aspect that has been part of this debate is the ability to recognize faces in and across different viewpoints. Here, we tested 128 participants consisting of school-age children (ages, 5-10 years) and adults (ages, 19-37 years) in two experiments to investigate the effects of different viewpoints (including fr...

Can the Accuracy of Home Blood Glucose Monitors be affected by the Received Signal Strength of 900 MHz GSM Mobile Phones?

Background: People who use home blood glucose monitors may use their mobile phones in the close vicinity of medical devices. This study is aimed at investigating the effect of the signal strength of 900 MHz GSM mobile phones on the accuracy of home blood glucose monitors.Methods: Sixty non-diabetic volunteer individuals aged 21 - 28 years participated in this study. Blood samples were analyzed ...

Vitamin D and Obesity: Which One Is Affected by the Other?