Taking a cue from Ronaldo at BBV, here's what happens to the brain after botox

2023-04-03 21:39:32Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Taking a cue from Ronaldo at BBV, here's what happens to the brain after
Ronaldo and Luiz

Ronaldo Sharka is one of the four residents who has re-entered BBV. But Ronaldo, in addition to re-entering BBV, seems to have also done botox, which has often brought Luiz's irony.

Taking a cue from this case, what if you want a forehead without wrinkles?

The price to pay may be the loss of the ability to interpret emotions.

This conclusion was reached by a study published in Scientific Reports, which highlighted how botox injections in the forehead can change the way the mind interprets and processes the emotions that are drawn on other people's faces.

When we see another person's angry or happy expression, we unconsciously tend to imitate it by contracting our facial muscles. This unconscious mimicry, called the facial response hypothesis, serves to send signals to our brain to help it interpret other people's emotions. According to this hypothesis, there is a link between facial muscle memory and our mind's processing of emotions.

To find out if Botox was the cause, researchers analyzed a small group of ten female participants, between the ages of 33 and 40, who underwent injections to induce temporary paralysis of the glabellar (forehead) muscle and then measured their activity. of the brain while they were shown pictures of faces with different emotions.

The activity of the amygdala, the center of our brain responsible for emotions, had changed after botox injections. Even the area of ​​the inferior temporal cortex that helps recognize objects and faces was damaged when participants looked at happy faces. All this happened because botox paralyzed their muscle movements, preventing them from frowning and affecting their brain's processing of emotions.

It is not the first time that studies have come to similar conclusions. In 2011, a study found that those who underwent Botox injections in the forehead and around the eyes had problems perceiving the emotions of others, while another study in 2010 found that those who underwent this type of cosmetic retouching had more time to read sentences that contained emotional language.

On the other hand, a study has shown that botox can also have positive effects, helping patients suffering from depression. The mechanism by which the treatment would help relieve symptoms of depression is not yet understood, but it appears to be potentially safe and effective in doing so.


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