Patients tell their life stories through nuances of tone and cadence, flashes of suspicion in the eyes, postures of arrogance, shame or pain.
Sensory information arising from the upper neck is important in the reflex control of posture and eye position.
Regardless, these differences (along with other dissimilarities such as the eye open posture), suggest - not surprisingly - that the complete spectrum of physiological changes present during natural sleep cycles is not completely mimicked by urethane anaesthesia.
Whatever indecision Catherine Sloper has felt in screen and stage incarnations about whether to open her front door to her suitor has had to be read in her eyes and posture.
In Molly she's inhabiting a standard role -- the wife worn to a frazzle by her husband's blockheaded insensitivity -- but with her wide, sad eyes, brittle posture and a voice that somehow manages to ascend to a screech without being irritating, she puts a personal stamp on it that is not only amusing but credible.
We predict that the basal ganglia contains a series of modules each controlling a given pattern of behaviour including locomotion, eye-movements, posture, and chewing that contain both the direct pathway to release a motor program and the indirect pathway to inhibit competing behaviours.
With his slightly sleepy eyes, ramrod posture and commanding voice (emulating Mandela's slightly throatier version), Elba commands the screen.
To such critics the people looking up at the speaker have stars in their eyes, their posture conveying celebrity worship, not a room full of respectful dissent".
For example, controlled smiles, averted gaze, head movements down and away, lowered head, downcast eyes, diminished posture, and blushing have been proposed to constitute universally recognized gestures [1], [34], [35], [36], [37], [38].
As per IACUC regulations, a veterinarian would have to be contacted when any of the following occurred: weight dropped below 10% of the baseline, the mice appeared less active, depressed, sunken eyes, abnormal posture, mice had reduced feed or water intake (even lower than the restricted amounts), or showed signs of pain or distress.
Eyes bright, postures erect, smiles broad?
