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Cartoons Superimposed With People's Faces Help Autistic Children Learn Emotions

...'s faces so that they can start learning about how expressions arise. This is a way to ease them into reading fac...episodes of a cartoon called The Transporters. The expressions of the people in the cartoon are explained to autistic children enabling them to learn about emotion...

Connections Program Offers Hope to Children With Asperger's Disorder

...mple, to address the inability to associate facial expressions with particular emotions, the children are asked to name an emotion, draw the facial expression associated with that emotion, and then talk about how that emotion can make a person feel physically. To reinforce this skill, students watch the popular ...

Autistic Children can Interpret Mental States by Facial Expressions: Research

... have difficulty reading mental states from facial expressions but our results suggest that this is not due to an inability to interpret information from the eyes,” said Elisa Back, formerly of the University of Nottingham and now a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and the study’s lead author. “Su...

Exercise can Slow Down the Aging Process in Elderly People

... the results of the study. We expected to see gene expressions that stayed fairly steady in the older adults. The...e most recent study also points to particular gene expressions that could be used as starting points for chemical screenings that could lead to drug therapies that...

Autistic Individuals can Be 'trained' to Comprehend Visual and Vocal Cues

...licit instructions to pay more attention to facial expressions and tone of voice elicited an increased response ...r explicit instructions to pay attention to facial expressions and tone of voice would elicit more normal patterns of brain activity in these children. While un...

Pride, Even the Hubristic Kind, Allows Us to Survive

... They found that like other fundamental emotions, expressions of pride are known across age groups and cultures. For instance, just as a flow of tears and down-turned lips indicate sadness, a faint grin, a little inflated chest and hands on hips hint a person's pride. The researchers also found that when a pe...

'Walk of Shame' Triggers Toilet Consciousness

..., the sarpanch captured the dismayed and horrified expressions of the villagers on video film, which he screened for all after the infamous walk around the fields. It was dubbed the "Walk of Shame" and the villagers immediately pledged to never again dirty their fields but use their in-door toilets. "It was...

Another Sexual Attraction is Possible ...

The coming summer vibrates with expressions of insect love and desire. The cicada's songs or the butterflies' bright colours are examples of how an emitting sex attracts conspecific members of the responding sex. Moth odours (pheromones), though less conspicuous for us humans, are also signal...

Generic Competitor for Plavix Blocked in US

Never mind Sicko. Everyday expressions of outrage over the soaring healthcare costs dont seem to matter either for US judges. A Canadian company's cheap generic version of the blood thinner Plavix has been blocked from the U.S. market until at least 2011. U.S. District Judge Sidney H. St...

New Technology Transforming Life for the Deaf

.... But with a little perseverance, following facial expressions carefully and only expressing simple things, you end up being able to communicate with everyone as anyone addressing a congress would do by using basic English" as a catch-all language, he explains....

World's First Face Transplant Patient Feels She is Alive Again

... of humans, those who have a face, a smile, facial expressions which allow them to communicate. And I am alive again," Isabelle Dinoire, 40, said in an interview published in Saturday's edition of Le Monde. But the single mother, whose nose, lips and chin were bitten off by her dog while she was under the infl...

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