GIUV2018-421
The group's multidisciplinary research ranges from quantitative and radiological anatomy, together with medical imaging techniques applied to the identification of the anatomical bases of the pathology, to geometric morphometry. In terms of the anatomical bases of pathology, we specialise in the study of vertebral anatomical variants and their association with clinical symptoms (pain, neuropathies, dizziness, etc.) in both modern sapiens and extinct human species (Homo Neanderthalensis). Geometric morphometry has been used to investigate hominin craniofacial biology (morphological integration), with a special interest in the cranial base as an interface between the brain and the facial skeleton. A "systems model" of human evolutionary anatomy has been developed, which conceptually employs an organism-based perspective on craniofacial and postcranial variation in hominins. The group has also focused in recent years on the form, function and integration of the respiratory apparatus, which is an anatomical system connecting the skull and postcranium, of the human organism, as well as on the relationship between thoracic form in osteogenesis imperfecta and respiratory function, and on...The group's multidisciplinary research ranges from quantitative and radiological anatomy, together with medical imaging techniques applied to the identification of the anatomical bases of the pathology, to geometric morphometry. In terms of the anatomical bases of pathology, we specialise in the study of vertebral anatomical variants and their association with clinical symptoms (pain, neuropathies, dizziness, etc.) in both modern sapiens and extinct human species (Homo Neanderthalensis). Geometric morphometry has been used to investigate hominin craniofacial biology (morphological integration), with a special interest in the cranial base as an interface between the brain and the facial skeleton. A "systems model" of human evolutionary anatomy has been developed, which conceptually employs an organism-based perspective on craniofacial and postcranial variation in hominins. The group has also focused in recent years on the form, function and integration of the respiratory apparatus, which is an anatomical system connecting the skull and postcranium, of the human organism, as well as on the relationship between thoracic form in osteogenesis imperfecta and respiratory function, and on variations in form and their association with pain at both the cervical and lumbar levels. The group is also investigating the development of the trunk at the evolutionary level in both extinct hominins and modern sapiens. Members of the group are also specialising in the study of geometric shape and anatomical variants in fossil records of Homo Neanderthalensis, Homo Naledi and Australopithecus Sediba.
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- Identifying anatomical risk factors associated with pathology in both modern sapiens and extinct hominins
- To obtain the morphological and functional integration of the respiratory system using geometric morphometrics in the genus Homo
- Identify the evolution of torso form and function in Australopithecus and Homo
- To determine the influence of the geometric shape of the spine on the onset of lumbar and cervical pain
- Correlating thoracic geometric shape and pulmonary function using 3D virtual models
- Identify ocular anatomical factors that predispose to ocular pathology
- To create virtual anatomical models to reproduce and identify bone pathologies and anatomical variants in both modern sapiens and extinct hominids
- To create virtual anatomical models of modern sapiens and extinct hominids for teaching and scientific dissemination
- Quantitative ocular anatomy.Study of ocular quantitative anatomy in relation to pathologies such as dry eye, glaucoma, diabetes, ocular hypertension, corneal anaesthesia, etc.
- Anatomical variants of the spine.Identification of the anatomical variants of the spinal column that can lead to the appearance of clinical symptoms such as headache, dizziness, tinnitus, vertebrobasilar insufficiency syndrome, etc.
- The shape of pain.Study of the geometric shape of the lumbar spine and its relationship with chronic non-specific low back pain.
- Anatomy and 3D geometric morphometry of the thorax of patients with osteogenesis imperfecta.Study of the anatomy and geometric morphometry of the thorax in patients with osteogenesis imperfecta and its relationship with pulmonary pathology.
| Name | Nature of participation | Entity | Description |
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| JUAN ALBERTO SANCHIS GIMENO | Director | Universitat de València | |
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| SUSANNA LLIDO TORRENT | Collaborator | Universitat de València - Estudi General | UVEG PhD student |
| MARKUS BASTIR | Collaborator | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas | Tenured scientist |
| ESTHER BLANCO PEREZ | Collaborator | Conselleria de Sanitat Universal i Salut Pública | Doctor |
| SHARED NALLA | Collaborator | University of Johannesburgo (Sudáfrica) | Tenured university professor |
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- Human Anatomy and Embryology
- PAIN
- DRY EYE
- REFRACTIVE SURGERY
- BACKBONE
- TRANSVERSE FORAMEN
- VERTEBRAL ARTERY
- VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY
- COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
- GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRY
- MEDICAL IMAGING
- OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA
- RIB CAGE
- THORAX
- VIRTUAL MORPHOLOGY
- CORNEAL ENDOTHELIUM
- CORNEAL THICKNESS
- DIABETES
- GLAUCOMA
- QUANTITATIVE ANATOMY
- ANATOMICAL VARIATIONS
- CERVICAL VERTEBRAE
