Treatment of social anxiety disorder using botulinum toxin
OwnerEric Finzi, Norman E. Rosenthalinventors
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Abstract
Methods are disclosed for treating social anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and/or panic disorder in a subject. The methods include administering a therapeutically effective amount of a neurotoxin to a corrugator supercilli and/or a procerus muscle of the subject to cause paralysis of the corrugator supercilli and/or a procerus muscle in the subject, thereby treating PTSD. The neurotoxin can be Botulinum toxin A, such as at a dose of about 20 to about 50 units of Botulinum toxin A.
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A method for treating a social anxiety disorder in a subject, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a Botulinum toxin to a corrugator supercilii and/or a procerus muscle of the subject to cause paralysis of the corrugator supercilii and/or a procerus muscle, and optionally administering the Botulinum toxin to the depressor anguli oris muscles of the subject, thereby treating the social anxiety disorder in the subject, wherein the Botulinum toxin does not cross a blood-brain barrier in the subject.
A method for treating a social anxiety disorder in a subject, comprising
- selecting a subject with the social anxiety disorder, and
- administering a therapeutically effective amount of Botulinum toxin A to a corrugator supercilii muscle and a procerus muscle of the subject to cause paralysis of the corrugator supercilii muscle and procerus muscle, and optionally administering the Botulinum toxin A to the depressor anguli oris muscles of the subject, wherein the Botulinum A toxin does not cross the blood brain barrier,
- thereby treating the social anxiety disorder, wherein the subject does not have an underlying muscular physical condition that is treatable with Botulinum toxin A.
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