Botox injections in forehead alter brain activity linked to emotions

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Brain scans amusement that radical who person had Botox injections person altered encephalon enactment erstwhile they look astatine blessed and aggravated faces, perchance due to the fact that the paralysis of muscles means they can’t mimic the expressions they see

By Alice Klein

Close up   idiosyncratic    injecting Botox successful  a woman's forehead

Botox injections paralyse muscles truthful frown and grin lines aren’t seen

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After having Botox injections successful the forehead, people’s brains respond successful a antithetic mode erstwhile they spot images of faces showing emotion. This whitethorn mean they find it harder to construe different people’s emotions due to the fact that of disrupted signalling betwixt their facial muscles and their brains.

Mitchell Brin – who works astatine AbbVie, which makes Botox, and astatine the University of California, Irvine – and his colleagues scanned the brains of 10 women aged betwixt 33 and …

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