A new baby’s arrival is usually a momentous occasion to celebrate. In Nigeria, a baby’s first traditional bath is considered sacred ...

This muscle, known as the auricularis posterior, has been largely dormant in humans for centuries but shows signs of ...

Vestigial ear muscles activate during focused listening, revealing a hidden link to our auditory past and evolution.

Tens of millions of years ago, our primate ancestors responded to noises in much the same way many other mammals do, pricking their ears and deftly turning them towards the sound's source.

If you can wiggle your ears, you can use muscles that helped our distant ancestors listen closely. These auricular muscles helped change the shape of the pinna, or the shell of the ear, funneling ...

To test the functioning of the muscles, researchers recruited 20 people without hearing problems. They used electromyograph, ...

Figure 1 Anatomic spaces that skull base chordomas frequently invade. cICA, cavernous internal carotid artery; DS-PCP, dorsum sellae and posterior clinoid process; FM-CCJ, foramen magnum and ...

Intracranial tumors, particularly posterior fossa tumors, may require additional imaging ... otolaryngology, endovascular and skull-based techniques.16–18 The expertise contributed by each field can ...

The intact skull cranial window was implanted 1 month after injection ... of division of the cerebral cortex according to the Allen Brain Atlas) (Figure 2A): (1) Posterior Parietal Association; (2) ...

Reperfusion was graded on the final antero-posterior and lateral whole brain DSA runs by a ... easily be overlooked when the vessel occlusion is in close proximity to the skull (online supplemental ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

This is an important study providing convincing evidence that increased blood pressure variability impairs myogenic tone and diminishes baroreceptor reflex. The study also provides evidence that blood ...