Botulinum toxin treatments of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders

摘要

This application relates to methods and medicaments for preventing or treating neuropsychiatric disorder and/or neurological disorder including a neurological disorder mediated by the thalamus. Neuropsychiatric disorders and/or neurological disorders, including a thalamically mediated disorder can be treated by peripheral administration of a medicament containing a botulinum toxin to or to the vicinity of a trigeminal nerve, thereby preventing or treating a neurological disorder and/or neuropsychiatric disorder.