Pregnant women who take certain types of antidepressants such as Prozac could be pushing their children towards emotional problems in later life, according to a study.
A team at Columbia University concluded that exposure to the group of antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) during the third trimester of pregnancy and in early childhood could lead to “unexpected risks for affective function later in life”.
The researchers found that the use of fluoxetine – better
known as Prozac - in young mice produced abnormal emotional
behaviour in adult mice. The research is published in Science
magazine.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5697/879
