Depression in blepharospasm: a question of facial feedback?

Bedarf, Janis Rebecca; Kebir, Sied; Michelis, Joan Philipp; Wabbels, Bettina; Paus, Sebastian (2017). Depression in blepharospasm: a question of facial feedback? Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 13, pp. 1861-1865. Dove Medical Press 10.2147/NDT.S141066

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Depression is the most important nonmotor symptom in blepharospasm (BL). As facial expression influences emotional perception, summarized as the facial feedback hypothesis, we investigated if patients report fewer depressive symptoms if injections of botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) include the "grief muscles" of the glabellar region, compared to treatment of orbicularis oculi muscles alone. Ninety BL patients were included, half of whom had BoNT treatment including the frown lines. While treatment pattern did not predict depressive symptoms overall, subgroup analysis revealed that in male BL patients, BoNT injections into the frown lines were associated with remarkably less depressive symptoms. We hypothesize that in BL patients presenting with dystonia of the eyebrow region, BoNT therapy should include frown line application whenever justified, to optimize nonmotor effects of BoNT denervation.

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