Neurology in ancient faces.

Prosopagnosia: a double dissociation between the recognition of familiar and unfamiliar faces.

Two cases of a dissociation between prosopagnosia and impaired capacity to match familiar faces were studied. Recognition of familiar faces recovered in the first patient, whereas prosopagnosia persisted in the second patient despite recovery of matching unfamiliar faces and other visuoperceptive skills. This double dissociation is discussed in relation to current views of prosopagnosia.

FACES: 3D FAcial reConstruction from anciEnt Skulls using content based image retrieval

Powerful techniques for modelling and rendering tridimensional organic shapes, like human body, are today available for applications in many fields such as special effects, ergonomic simulation or medical visualization, just to name a few. These techniques, combined with Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), are proving to be very useful also to archaeologists and anthropologists committed to r...

A software for aging faces applied to ancient marble busts

The study and development of software able to show the effect of aging of faces is one of the tasks of face recognition technologies. Some software solutions are used for investigations, some others to show the effects of drugs on healthy appearance, however some other applications can be proposed for the analysis of visual arts. Here we use a freely available software, which is providing inter...

Indigenous Medicine and the State in Ancient India

Several arguments have been forwarded for the stagnation of Ayurveda, and most of these focus on the discrimination that Ayurveda faces under Mughal and then under British rule. Even for Ancient India, the halcyon portrait of Ayurveda synergetically related with religion and politics during the period, as has been portrayed in many books of history and in countless lores, is false. This paper t...

The many faces of central nervous system tuberculosis.