First, a facial anatomy refresher: The face is composed of layers of skin, fat and muscle that sit on top of our skull, Dr. Murad Alam, vice chair of dermatology at Northwestern University ...

The facial nerve is the seventh of the twelve cranial nerves and operates out of your brainstem. Your facial nerve is responsible for making facial expressions, and it stimulates the sensors in ...

The majority of these nerves can be found at the surface level of your skull, which means they’re very susceptible to injury because they’re only covered by your facial tissue and muscles.

From uncomfortable family portraits to forced workplace smiles, our brains often sense something’s off before we can explain ...

moving muscles used for facial expressions as well as some muscles in your jaw providing a sense of taste for most of your tongue supplying glands in your head or neck area, such as salivary ...

The presence of weakness in only the lower facial muscles may indicate a central lesion, as opposed to a peripheral lesion. The eighth cranial nerve is primarily responsible for hearing through ...

Botulinum Toxin, Emotional Anatomy, and Mood Modulation,” published in the May 2025 issue of Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology ...

To start, “breath in and scrunch all your muscles” from head to toe, including “face, fists, and buttocks,” then “exhale and stick out your tongue and widen your eyes, and repeat three ...

This allowed him to flesh out Avgi's face, muscle by muscle. While some of her features are based on skull measurements, others, like skin and eye color, are inferred based on general population ...