The wider health implication is that commonly used SSRI antidepressants, which target the uptake of serotonin into neurons, may also impact the uptake in immune cells.
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In 2003, there was a total of 139 million in public spending on just two classes of drugs, SSRI antidepressants and atypical antipsychotics. A large portion of these dollars were spent to maintain children on these drugs, ... despite the fact that they have not been proven effective in children and the FDA has not approved them for use in children.
It appears that SSRI use during late pregnancy puts the baby at higher risk for development of respiratory and central nervous system side effects.
It appears that SSRI antidepressants rewire areas of the brain that are important for thinking and feeling, as well as operating the autonomic nervous system.