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Finzi E. Botulinum Toxin Treatment for Depression: A New Paradigm for Psychiatry. Toxins (Basel) 2023; 15:toxins15050336. [PMID: 37235370 DOI: 10.3390/toxins15050336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2023] [Revised: 05/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/13/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
Abstract
Multiple randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trials have shown that botulinum toxin A (BoNT/A), when injected into the frown musculature, is an antidepressant. This review outlines the conceptual narrative behind this treatment modality, starting with theory developed by Charles Darwin. We develop the concept of emotional proprioception and discuss how the muscles of facial expression play an important role in relaying valenced information to the brain's emotional neuroanatomical circuit. We review the role of facial frown musculature as the brain's barometer and transmitter of negatively valanced emotional information. The direct connections between the corrugator muscles and the amygdala are reviewed, and these provide a neuroanatomical circuit that is a logical target for treatment with BoNT/A. The centrality of amygdala dysfunction in the pathogenesis of many psychiatric disorders, and the evidence that BoNT/A modulates amygdala activity, provides the mechanistic link between BoNT/A and its antidepressant activity. Animal models of BoNT/A's antidepressant effects confirm the evolutionary conservation of this emotional circuit. The clinical and theoretical implications of this evidence, as it relates to the potential treatment of a broad range of psychiatric disorders by BoNT/A, is discussed. The ease of administration, long duration, and favorable side effect profile of this therapy is reviewed in the context of existing antidepressant treatments.
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Affiliation(s)
- Eric Finzi
- Healis Therapeutics, 4041 MacArthur Blvd Suite 400, Newport Beach, CA 92660, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, George Washington School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Washington, DC 20037, USA
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Coles NA, March DS, Marmolejo-Ramos F, Larsen JT, Arinze NC, Ndukaihe ILG, Willis ML, Foroni F, Reggev N, Mokady A, Forscher PS, Hunter JF, Kaminski G, Yüvrük E, Kapucu A, Nagy T, Hajdu N, Tejada J, Freitag RMK, Zambrano D, Som B, Aczel B, Barzykowski K, Adamus S, Filip K, Yamada Y, Ikeda A, Eaves DL, Levitan CA, Leiweke S, Parzuchowski M, Butcher N, Pfuhl G, Basnight-Brown DM, Hinojosa JA, Montoro PR, Javela D LG, Vezirian K, IJzerman H, Trujillo N, Pressman SD, Gygax PM, Özdoğru AA, Ruiz-Fernandez S, Ellsworth PC, Gaertner L, Strack F, Marozzi M, Liuzza MT. A multi-lab test of the facial feedback hypothesis by the Many Smiles Collaboration. Nat Hum Behav 2022; 6:1731-1742. [PMID: 36266452 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-022-01458-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2019] [Accepted: 09/07/2022] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
Abstract
Following theories of emotional embodiment, the facial feedback hypothesis suggests that individuals' subjective experiences of emotion are influenced by their facial expressions. However, evidence for this hypothesis has been mixed. We thus formed a global adversarial collaboration and carried out a preregistered, multicentre study designed to specify and test the conditions that should most reliably produce facial feedback effects. Data from n = 3,878 participants spanning 19 countries indicated that a facial mimicry and voluntary facial action task could both amplify and initiate feelings of happiness. However, evidence of facial feedback effects was less conclusive when facial feedback was manipulated unobtrusively via a pen-in-mouth task.
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Affiliation(s)
- Nicholas A Coles
- Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Center for Change and Complexity in Learning, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Abakaliki, Nigeria
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- Department of Psychology, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Abakaliki, Nigeria
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- School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia
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- School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel
- Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Psychology, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
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- Department of Psychology, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
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- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Psychology, Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil
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- Vernacular Languages Department, Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil
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- Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India
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- Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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- Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- School of Biomedical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- School of Health and Life Sciences, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK
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- Center of Research on Cognition and Behavior, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Psychology, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK
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- Department of Psychology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Psychology, United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
- Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicología Básica 1, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain
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- Programa de Psicología, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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- LIP/PC2s, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, Üsküdar University, İstanbul, Turkey
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- FOM University of Applied Sciences, Essen, Germany
- Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, 'Magna Graecia' University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
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