OBJECTIVE To compared the clinical features of 373 patients with primary and postparalytic hemifacial spasm (HFS). METHOD Data analyzed were gender, ethnicity, age at symptom onset, disease duration, affected side, distribution of facial spasm at onset, hypertension, family history of HFS, previous history of facial palsy and latency between facial palsy and HFS. RESULTS The prevalence of p...

Human faces transmit multiple valuable signals, and neuroimaging studies have shown that the amygdala is active in response to facial stimuli. However, little has been known about the temporal profile of amygdala activation during facial signal processing until recently. Here we review three recent studies conducted by our group in which we recorded amygdala intracranial electroencephalography ...

Non-verbal communication plays an important role in human communication. At the Delft University of Technology there is a project running on the automatic recognition of facial expressions. The developed system ISFER (Integrated System for Facial Expression Recognition) consists of modules suited for the analysis of a frontal view of the face. As the obtained results are still far from being pe...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to find correlations between lateral cephalometric measurements and photographic measurements of facial attractiveness in a group of Egyptian adolescents. Materials and methods: Sixty adolescent laypersons judges (30 males – 30 females) participated in the evaluation of the pre-treatment photographs of 60 adolescent subjects (30 females – 30 males) for facial ...

Men are presented with higher facial prominence than women in the media, a phenomenon that is called face-ism. In naturalistic settings, face-ism effects could be driven by gender biases of photographers and/or by gender differences in self-presentation. The present research is the first to investigate whether women and men themselves create this different facial prominence. In a controlled lab...

OBJECTIVES To validate the effectiveness of the original standards of True Vertical (TV) Subnasal Line in orthognatic surgery planning. The present study evaluates the changes occurring in patients with skeletal Class II alterations programmed for orthognathic surgery with a view to improving their facial profile. STUDY DESIGN [corrected] We showed a series of black profiles (composed by a fi...

This paper describes a person verification system based on facial profile views and features extracted from speech. The system is comprised of two non-homogeneous classifiers whose outputs are fused after a normalization step. Experiments are reported which show that integration of the face profile and speech information results in superior performance to that of its subsystems. Additionally, t...