1. The imperfect beauty.
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Velardi, Francesco, Cogliandro, Annalisa, and Persichetti, Paolo
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SELF-presentation , *PERSONAL beauty , *IMAGE enhancement (Imaging systems) , *IDENTITY crises (Psychology) , *BODY dysmorphic disorder , *ONLINE dating services , *PREFRONTAL cortex - Abstract
10.1001/jamafacial.2018.0486 20 Barone M, Cogliandro A, Persichetti P. Ethics and plastic surgery/what is plastic surgery? The evaluation of the surrounding world, either existing in the realm of materiality or in the ideal universe of abstract imagination, the perception of ourselves and the others, the emotional quality of our conversations, our mating preferences, and even our reproductive decisions, is energetically oriented by physical appearance and beauty, as pervasive and powerful agents in the human society. Attractive (as well as unattractive) faces undergo processing within the brain's reward centers in the orbitofrontal-cortex (OFC) and striatum, with medial OFC being responsive to attractive faces, and lateral OFC being responsive to unattractive faces. "Plastic Surgery is not the "Medicine of Desires" and must remain within the epistemological frame of Scientific Medicine, maintaining the correct indications for aesthetic or reconstructive procedures as its objective reference. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2021
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