Interestingly, resting a laptop on your thigh can generate temperatures up to 44 degrees Fahrenheit- enough to cause discoloration and potentially permanent skin changes.
"I have to wear sleeves and carry an umbrella, " said Lee Thomas, who wrote a memoir called "Turning White, " which discusses his physical and mental struggles as an African-American man whose skin changes because of vitiligo.
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Similarly, when an octopus changes skin color in self-defense, such as by mimicking a poisonous sea snake, the decision may come not from central command but from the skin itself.
Researchers in the department currently have one on-going study funded by Nu Skin related to the identification of master regulators and epigenetic changes to human skin aging.
Measuring galvanic skin response--changes in the electrical resistance, that is--can gauge emotional involvement.
Antioxidants applied topically have been shown to protect against sun damage that can cause wrinkles and changes in skin pigmentation, Dr. Alster says.
Sunscreen has long been touted as a way to stave off photoaging, or changes to the skin caused by sun exposure.
To get to your question, the antidepressant potential of ketamine was discovered serendipitously in patients receiving the drug for the treatment of complex regional pain syndrome, or CRPS, a miserable condition characterized by severe pain, swelling and changes in the skin.
To calculate the heart rate the camera detects tiny changes in the colour of the skin.
Saline implants are more prone to rippling and other texture changes that can sometimes be seen through the skin, surgeons say.
On the other hand, given the amount of effort and money put into the changes, there does seem to be some company skin, and ego, in this game.
The build is wonderful, and the leather cushions on the cups changes to a cloth material on the part that rests on your skin.
Since every pregnancy brings physical changes -- your breasts swell, your joints ache, your skin may develop blotches or stretch marks -- the symptoms of cancer can easily be overlooked.
The risk of subsequent skin cancer developing is quite small, but does require monitoring if long term changes develop.
Commercial trials are under way on Affectiva's skin-conductance sensors, wristwatch-size devices that detect emotional engagement by measuring tiny changes in sweat-gland activity.
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