"Facial Expression" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Observable changes of expression in the face in response to emotional stimuli.
| Descriptor ID |
D005149
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.600.225 F01.145.209.530.385
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| Concept/Terms |
Facial Expression- Facial Expression
- Expression, Facial
- Expressions, Facial
- Facial Expressions
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Facial Expression" by people in Profiles.
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The representation of facial emotion expands from sensory to prefrontal cortex with development. Elife. 2026 Jan 30; 14.
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Emotional contagion of fear and joy from humans to horses using a combination of facial and vocal cues. Sci Rep. 2025 May 21; 15(1):17689.
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Neural differentiation of emotional faces as a function of interpersonal violence among adolescent girls. J Psychiatr Res. 2024 04; 172:90-101.
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Early institutionalized care disrupts the development of emotion processing in prosody. Dev Psychopathol. 2021 05; 33(2):421-430.
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Revised Self-Monitoring Scale: A potential endpoint for frontotemporal dementia clinical trials. Neurology. 2020 06 02; 94(22):e2384-e2395.
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eXnet: An Efficient Approach for EmotionRecognition in the Wild. Sensors (Basel). 2020 Feb 17; 20(4).
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Adrenarcheal Timing Longitudinally Predicts Anxiety Symptoms via Amygdala Connectivity During Emotion Processing. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2020 06; 59(6):739-748.e2.
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Early and late cortical reactivity to passively viewed emotional faces in pediatric bipolar disorder. J Affect Disord. 2019 06 15; 253:240-247.
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Associations between adrenarcheal hormones, amygdala functional connectivity and anxiety symptoms in children. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2018 11; 97:156-163.
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Technology-Enhanced Surveillance: Can Facial Expression Analysis Add Predictive Power to Early Warning Scores? Crit Care Med. 2018 07; 46(7):1185-1186.