Botox Promising for Depression: Review

Botulinum toxin A prevents release of acetylcholine from nerve endings, which leads to muscle paralysis, he noted. The substance is widely known for its cosmetic role to treat frown lines. But it has other uses, including treating muscle contractions or spasms, chronic migraine, and urinary incontinence in adults with multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injury, Parsaik said. And recently it has begin attracting attention as a possible treatment for depression, on the rationale that facial expression plays a role in mood so that preventing an unhappy expression might actually reduce unhappiness. Injections of the muscle-paralyzing drug into the forehead