http://exploringthemind.com Brain Candy for the Curious Mind! Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:46:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Copyright © Exploring The Mind! 2010 michael@hypnosisnetwork.com (Exploring The Mind!) michael@hypnosisnetwork.com (Exploring The Mind!) posts 1440 http://exploringthemind.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/itunes_144.jpg http://exploringthemind.com 144 144 Brain Candy for the Curious Mind! Exploring The Mind! Exploring The Mind! michael@hypnosisnetwork.com no no http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/botox-and-emotions http://exploringthemind.com/the-mind/botox-and-emotions#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:20:52 +0000 admin http://exploringthemind.com/?p=394 It turns out that Botox can actually short circuit a person’s ability to feel unhappy. Because of the apparent validation of something called the, “Facial Feedback Hypothesis”, the fact that Botox prevents frowning... also short circuits one’s ability to fully feel the emotions associated with it. David Havas of the University of Wisconsin-Madison decided to study people who had received Botox treatments that paralyzed one pair of their corrugator muscles, which cause the forehead to constrict into a frown.

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