Health and Suppliments

The antiaging drug, Botox, may make you young by some years but it can seriously affect the development of emotions to bring a full-stop to your happiness, according to a recently concluded study.

Botox, which is used by millions of people worldwide, to fight facial wrinkles can lead to loss of smiles and curtailment of emotions.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

Botox is made of an extremely toxic protein called Botulinum toxin that temporarily paralyses the muscles that cause creases.

But, researchers at Barnard College in New York found that lack of facial expressions may influence emotional experiences as well.

They found that being unable to smile at the time of happiness feeds back to the brain reducing the intensity of feeling, The Telegraph reported.

“With Botox, a person can respond otherwise normally to an emotional event, such as a sad movie scene, but will have less movement in the facial muscles that have been injected, and therefore less feedback to the brain about such facial expressivity,” said lead researcher Joshua Davis.

“It thus allows for a test of whether facial expressions and the sensory feedback from them to the brain can influence our emotions.”

For their study, Davis and his colleague Ann Senghas led a team of researchers who showed people emotionally charged videos both before and after they were injected with either Botox, or Restylane — a substance injected into lips or facial wrinkles that fills out sagging skin.

The findings of the study are published in the journal, Emotion.

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