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Clichéd as it may have become, there's still real wisdom to be gleaned from the phrase "fake it until you make it." Acting the part is often the first step to legitimately owning it. Wear the persona of a competent, confident manager and you may find you're on the way to becoming one....

It may raise a few eyebrows, but a new study suggests Botox, the muscle paralyzing wrinkle tonic, may also be a powerful antidepressant. Researchers who injected Botox into the corrugator and procerus muscles — the pyramid-shaped “frown muscles” between the eyebrows...

In a study forthcoming in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, Eric Finzi, a cosmetic dermatologist, and Norman Rosenthal, a professor of psychiatry at Georgetown Medical School, randomly assigned a group of 74 patients with major depression to receive either Botox or saline injections in the forehead muscles whose contraction makes it possible to frown....

People aren't exactly upfront about receiving Botox therapy for facial wrinkles. Maybe it seems a little vain, in a world full of problems, to focus on erasing a few wrinkles from your face. Could there possibly be anything gained, aside from a youthfully smooth brow, by taming the ability of our faces to fully express our...

The North Potomac woman, who had suffered from clinical depression for most of her life, was being invited to participate in a study that would investigate whether botulinum toxin, better known by the trade name Botox, alleviated symptoms of clinical depression....

The title The Face of Emotion: How Botox Affects Our Moods and Relationshipsdoesn't exactly scream "summer read." But the new book by Eric Finzi, a dermatologist who has studied the effects of Botox on depression, is full of interesting facts on the relationship between facial expression and emotion....

But even those who know all about the drug’s physical effects will be intrigued by Dr. Finzi’s narrative, because it turns out that cosmetic Botox may not be all about vanity after all. Research studies, including some by Dr. Finzi, have found that the substance appears to alleviate depression more safely and perhaps more effectively...

You know that expression "fake it until you make it"? That's kind of the idea behind a cool new book to hit shelves this week. The Face of Emotion, by Maryland-based dermatological surgeon Eric Finzi, MD, suggests that the happier we look, the happier we feel....