US study: Botox reduces symptoms of depression

A recent study in the US has found that using Botox to combat frown lines reduced the symptoms of severe depression in more than a quarter of patients.

The decade long research into the benefits of Botox for the severely depressed found that injecting Botox into your furrows or ‘grief muscles’ can actually make you feel happier. Through preventing frowning, the toxin is interrupting signals in the brain that indicate that the body is under stress or cannot cope. According to the research, “the brain registers what the face is doing – it’s like an emotional thermometer. If you’re laughing, the brain will think, oh let’s decrease the stress hormones. With negative feedback such as frowning, it will think more pessimistically.

Gravity can make us look progressively cross or miserable.“After good surgery, people react to you differently as we pick up subtle cues that tell the brain whether someone is happy or sad.”

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Source:  Private cosmetic surgery news : 6 March 2013 at http://www.privatehealth.co.uk/news/march-2013/botox-reduces-symptoms-of-depression-38083/