“A lot of women who are interested in starting families start to question what their medications are doing and what the risks are... neurodevelopmental problems, bleeding during pregnancy, congenital heart malformations. They've never heard of these things – and they feel

How do SSRI antidepressants impact the developing brain? This is an excellent Grand Rounds exploring this topic. "Revisiting the Safety of SSRI use during pregnancy: Are we causing more harm than good?" youtube.com/watch?v=NbMqE6…

Re-reviewing Gingrich et al. on pregnant rats exposed to SSRIs, and the potential long-term effects on offspring...and this pops up in my feed: "Chuck E. Cheese handcuffed and arrested for credit card fraud." (Gen-Xers might recall that Chuck E. was originally a rat).

Prenatal SSRI exposure can result in neonatal effects that last longer than a few days. This study showed effects on movement & tone lasting at least a month. The authors: "The presence of SSRI-specific adverse effects, beyond those stemming from maternal antenatal depression,

Kim, if your physician was going to prescribe Zoloft or Prozac, you had a serotonin imbalance. But if they prescribed Wellbutrin, the problem was with your dopamine/norepinephrine system. The explanation for your distress depended on what pill they were going to prescribe.

My episode with the amazing Dr Joanna Moncrieff is live! "There's no doubt that the pharmaceutical industry very deliberately used this idea of depression being caused by chemical imbalance in order to promote the SSRI antidepressants." "About half of people taking

This article is not accurate & should be corrected by Rhitu Chatterjee & NPR SSRIs dramatically ⬇️ platelet serotonin & SSRIs ARE associated with postpartum hemorrhage. She writes: "neither are [SSRIs] associated with a significantly higher risk of...postpartum hemorrhage, as

Most media coverage of that FDA panel on Antidepressants in Pregnancy did not mention the speaker who actually treats pregnant women: Adam Urato, MD Here’s Dr. Urato’s testimony. Read it for yourself: rxisk.org/antidepressant…