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May 12, 2009, Wash Post Health Section, by Rachel Saslow
Gold - not just for jewelry! Green tea - not just for a caffeine buzz! Caviar - not just for impressing dinner guests! All three of those are ingredients in beauty products available to consumers willing to spend hundreds of dollars for an ounce of face cream that might keep their skin looking young. 
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November 2006, Allure magazine, by Lois B. Morris
Since Botox erases frown lines, can it also erase the moods that go with the furrowed brow?  According to a report in the journal Dermatologic Surgery, Botox may indeed be a new treatment for depression.  Eric Finzi, MD, PhD, a dermasurgeon in Chevy Chase, Maryland, recruited 10 clinically depressed women for his study.

October 2006, Self magazine
Hot shot:  Botox may do more than dewrinkle.  Research in Dermatologic Surgery suggests that injecting the drug into the forehead of depressed patients can lift their spirits, perhaps because the Rx makes it tough to express (and even feel) sadness.  Try faking a smile to improve your mood.
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July 2006,  Kathleen Delano certainly wasn't expecting to find a cure for depression at her dermatologist's. But during a visit for a skin problem, a sign grabbed her attention: "Subjects wanted for a new depression study."
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May 29, 2006  by Jerry Adler & Karen Springen
Smooth the brow, brighten the eye ... " the pioneering psychologist William James wrote in 1890, describing a self-help technique for overcoming depression, "and your heart must be frigid indeed if it does not gradually thaw." In James's lifetime there was no easy way to follow this advice because Botox hadn't been invented. But today, smoothing the brow by paralyzing the corrugator supercilii muscles is the work of minutes--or so reasoned Eric Finzi, a dermatologist in Chevy Chase, Md.
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May 25, 2006, Washington Business Journal, by Jennifer Nycz-Conner
This morning, Eric Finzi, MD, medical director and president of Chevy Chase Cosmetic Center was in the studio alongside Charlie Gibson on ABC's Good Morning America talking about the results of his new study that found Botox may be an effective treatment for clinical depression.
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May 23, 2006, Boston Herald, by Jessica Heslam
It gets rid of wrinkles and crow's feet, but Botox may put a smile on your inside as well.  A first-of-its-kind pilot study found that Botox erased depression in 9 out of 10 women with a major problem with the condition.
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May 22, 2006 by Susan Brink
Inspired by age-old literary wisdom, countless song lyrics and the 1872 musings of Charles Darwin, a very 2006 theory to treat depression has emerged. Why not turn that frown upside down - with a shot of Botox? By preventing the physical act of frowning, the muscle-paralyzing toxin just might ease depression.
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May 21, 2006 Wash Post frontpage, by Shankar Vedantam
Kathleen Delano had suffered from depression for years. Having tried psychotherapy and a number of antidepressant drugs in vain, she resigned herself to a life of suffering.  Then she tried Botox, the drug that became a rage a few years ago for smoothing out facial wrinkles.
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May 2006, Capitol File magazine, by Cheryl Masri 
Dr. Eric Finzi is a recognized studio artist and sculptor as well as a dermasurgeon with a PhD in biochemistry - a true Renaissance man!  Dr. Finzi also spent two years in a lab at the National Institutes of Health studying skin cancer treatments.  His unique approach to a more youthful appearance is fat transfer.  He liposuctions excess fat from certain areas of your body and moves it to the areas that have lost fat due to aging.   
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March 2004 Glamour Magazine by Bari Nan Cohen
Question:  Does fat disappear for good when you have liposuction?
Answer:  Yes and no.  "The surgery removes fat cells and makes it very difficult afterwards to gain them back in that spot," says Eric Finzi, MD, PhD, a dermatologic surgeon in Greenbelt and Chevy Chase, Maryland, who removes more than half a ton of fat a year.  Just watch out for post-lipo weight gain, because while your saddlebags may take a permanent vacation, you may begin to store fat disproportionately in other parts of your body.  If it can't land back on your thighs, it's got to go somewhere.
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