Prozac passes on altered behaviour to next three generations in fish, researchers find
Fish exposed to the antidepressant drug Prozac pass on altered behaviour to the next three generations, raising questions about what might happen to human children whose mothers take the drug.
At the University of Ottawa, researchers Vance Trudeau and Marilyn Vera-Chang exposed fish eggs and newly-hatched fish to Prozac levels typical of what would cross the human placenta and reach an embryo.
Trudeau and others had already studied side-effects of these drugs in fish for years, concentrating on
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