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- Patent Title: Treatment of social anxiety disorder using botulinum toxin
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Application No.: US15277909Application Date: 2016-09-27
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Publication No.: US09808515B2Publication Date: 2017-11-07
- Inventor: Eric Finzi , Norman E. Rosenthal
- Applicant: Eric Finzi , Norman E. Rosenthal
- Agency: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP
- Main IPC: A61K38/48
- IPC: A61K38/48 ; A61K31/5513 ; A61K45/06

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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