{"id":2099,"date":"2022-12-20T20:19:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T01:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haidut.me\/?p=2099"},"modified":"2022-12-20T21:06:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T02:06:38","slug":"ssri-drug-use-during-pregnancy-linked-again-to-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/?p=2099","title":{"rendered":"SSRI drug use during pregnancy linked (again) to autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think the topic needs much of an introduction. At this point, the only people who deny the causal link between SSRI use by pregnant or soon-to-become pregnant women and autism in their children are either pharma employees&#8230;or doctors who receive so much money from pharma companies to prescribe SSRI drugs that they are de-facto pharma employees. Mainstream media is also criminally culpable in my opinion. Despite discussing the study and its bombshell findings about SSRI drugs (specifically Prozac), the news article talks about &#8220;blocking&#8221; the &#8220;serotonin pathway&#8221; as the detrimental mechanism causing autism, which would invariably lead most people to internalize a message that blocking serotonin may lead to autism, when in fact the SSRI drugs promote serotonin&#8217;s effects by inhibiting serotonin&#8217;s degradation through the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serotonin_transporter\">serotonin transporter (SERT)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.bbi.2022.10.024\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.bbi.2022.10.024<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20221220\/Antidepressant-use-during-pregnancy-may-combine-with-inflammation-to-alter-offspring-neurobiology.aspx\">https:\/\/www.news-medical.net\/news\/20221220\/Antidepressant-use-during-pregnancy-may-combine-with-inflammation-to-alter-offspring-neurobiology.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs19news.com\/story\/47982500\/uva-study-linking-antidepressants-to-autism\">https:\/\/www.cbs19news.com\/story\/47982500\/uva-study-linking-antidepressants-to-autism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;A recent study done by a graduate student at UVA found <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>women who take an antidepressant during pregnancy are linked to autism in children<\/strong><\/span>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>They used the medication <span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Prozac<\/span> in their study<\/strong><\/span>. Antidepressants and antianxiety medications are safe for pregnant women to use; however, they are finding some may be better to use than others. \u201cWhat our findings show is that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>combining antidepressants and anti-anxieties with an inflammatory bout that could arise due to infection, viral infection, or an autoimmune disorder can synergize and negatively affect birth brain development and lead to behavioral abnormalities that are associated with autism<\/strong><\/span>,\u201d said John Lukens, Associate Professor in Neuroscience at UVA. They have not tested this with any other medication at this time but they highly encourage <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>women who are pregnant or may become pregnant in the near future and are currently on Prozac to discuss other options for treatment for depression and anxiety with a doctor<\/strong><\/span>. \u201cIt really depends on the actual medication obviously there are various different drugs that target serotonin to treat anxiety and depression some are safer to take during pregnancy than others. It kind of makes sense because <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>the serotonin pathway which we\u2019re blocking also acts on immune cells too<\/strong><\/span>,\u201d Lukens adds.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think the topic needs much of an introduction. 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