Early exposure to antidepressants affects adult anxiety and serotonin transmission

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) Now, a UCLA team has studied early developmental exposure to two different antidepressants, Prozac and Lexapro, in a mouse model that mimics human third trimester medication exposure. They found that, although these serotonin-selective reuptake inhibiting antidepressants were thought to work the same way, they did not produce the same long-term changes in anxiety behavior in the adult mice.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news