A recent study on the SSRI antidepressant vilazodone (VLZ) found it to be neurotoxic to mothers and to the fetus during pregnancy, negatively impacting outcomes across a wide variety of body systems.
Although this study was performed on rats, it adds to a large body of research on the impact of psychiatric drugs in human pregnancy. Human studies have found antidepressant use in pregnancy linked to poor outcomes for babies, including neonatal withdrawal syndrome.
“Our findings indicate that prenatal VLZ exposure interfere with crucial brain development processes involving the BDNF/Bax-Bcl2/5-HT signalling pathways, leading to long-lasting neurodevelopmental impairments,” the researchers write.
The researchers found that exposure to the SSRI increased cell death (apoptosis); reduced fetal brain size, weight, and thickness; and reduced serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine levels in the fetus, among other negative outcomes.
“Therefore, caution is advised when prescribing VLZ to pregnant individuals to safeguard both fetal and maternal health,” the researchers write.
The study was conducted by Priyanka Agrawal, Pallavi Singh, and K.P. Singh at the University of Allahabad, India, and published in NeuroToxicology.
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Sickening.
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Sickening and stupid.
No one in their right mind would think powerful substances would NOT affect developing fetuses.
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Someone in his left mind might think powerful substances can induce autopsychognosia or mediate contact with dead ancestors and other entities. (Gandhi warned against the futility of these contacts btw.) The Shaivite might think that any drug is like a knife which in the hands of a surgeon has a different use-value than it does in the hands of a rogue. Maybe these are just the exceptionally self-centered fantasies of another idiot savant. If so, contact your representatives and demand they support the funding of classical education in public schools. Anyways, see the writings of Kafkalides, Hausner, Dobkin de Rios, Furst, Leary, Wasson, Charles Tart, Stanislav Grof, et al for more information. Also see Mike Crowley’s Secret Drugs of Buddhism.
Maybe this is why strict nuns used to slap us filthy left-handers with rulers before my generation.
Comparing psychiatric poisons to empathogens or entheogens as a wave-phase of the war-peace talisman isn’t very funny. I’m too jaded to appreciate the gravity of your comment.
Sincerely, Stupid Narcissist aka Gandhi Stalinist
P.S. Effect versus affect distinction is so hard to remember!!!
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The article was addressing the effects of foreign substances on developing fetuses. Does THAT cut any ice with you???
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I don’t know what that means! Clearly it spoke to my shame. I shouldn’t confess my sins to people, only to God, but I am a man of bad choices so I will share with you that I have a sister who miscarried and I was a very irresponsible drug user at the time. I don’t know what to tell you. It’s heartbreaking and it’s probably mostly my fault. I have to live with that. Worse, others have to live with that. Having said so, perhaps ignoring us aliens is the best course of action if you don’t want the disturbance in your field of vision. See no evil, and all of that. Still, I think I should be able to say what I want and if I have some way to relate then I will volunteer what information I have in the hopes that someone else can learn from my dysphoric misexperiences of extreme consciousness. Learn more from your enemies than your friends, etc. Thankfully there is a lot of geographic and emotional distance between myself and my sister’s family at this time. Hopefully this helps.
Sincerely, Selfish White Dog
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I’m very sorry for what happened to your sister, but bear in mind the flippancy of your tone caused me to assume you were (inappropriately) speaking in jest.
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This is what Discordianism does to someone’s thinking process. “Is it a satire disguised as a religion or a religion disguised as a satire?” I am a very serious and sincere, if immature, person. Life isn’t much fun without humor. Turns out I’m the joke. Which fnords like the punchline of a tragedy! Nope, just manic depression. Sure, life is like The Truman Show more often than not. Has a lot to do with my main character syndrome. I’m an angry loser with a lot of resentment against the world and myself.
Anyways, thanks for your condolences. They have a lovely family.
Not anonymous
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Try lightening up a bit. It might do you some good.
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Thank you, I’ll try taking that to the heart. My dad is very easy-going so I don’t know why it skipped me.
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“No one in their right mind would think powerful substances would NOT affect developing fetuses.”
…except those who profit off of forcing and coercing them on to innocent others?
My question is, why weren’t these rat studies done, prior to the last several decades of forced and coerced drugging of humans? Shouldn’t the drug testing be done on the rats, prior to the human population?
Oh, that’s right, read Rockefeller’s writings, and goals ….
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This would be easily solved if there were designated spaces for drug users to explore consciousness safely. You’re pinning the blame on individuals instead of the DEA who are ultimately responsible if you can think in a structural way instead of relying on neoliberal individualist cultural conditioning to teach you who to hate. (Then again, I rely on my own conditioning to teach me who to hate, too.) Read Strategic Suicide. The DEA has known exactly what they are doing this entire time, their goal is to intensify psychosocial slavery and increase drug addiction because it gives their violent acts legitimacy. Do you think this is true for individuals too? All I want to say is that there are proper contexts for drug use and if these contexts aren’t accessible then the consequences will be catastrophic for both drug users and people who do not use drugs. This is quite a moderate position to be frank because it will lessen the suffering in the world, whether you agree with drug use ideologically or not. Another possible solution is to give sensitivity training and drug addiction treatment training to people who don’t use drugs. You think this is enabling us? Harm reduction is a common sense approach. Americans like drugs. Blame television, blame music, blame popular culture. Don’t blame the ones who suffer without respite because if you’re trapped in a flaming building you’ll either jump and fly or crash and burn.
Marcuse was funded by the Rockefeller foundation. Would you kindly suggest more of Rockefeller’s writings please?
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Well, at least we know who’s responsible for the birth of corporate medicine.
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I live on Corpse Row, United Kingdom. It sounds like a prison doesn’t it – ‘United Kingdom’. Dom sounds like door, and kingdom sounds like slamming it shut, and then it’s lights out and seeing in infrared the demonic domination and enslavement of you all. It pretends to be you, dismissing your unease, flattering you, justifying you, instilling in you a dull complacency so that when the shock arrives the body and the nerves will collapse and you’ll be the twitching mass of cells the authorities want you to be. Then you’ll cry for a strong leader as has already happened in America, but the only excess of power available is evil power, destructive power. Some of us are seeing this and understanding it all and going through visionary experiences and transformations. But those whose whole life, brain, neurology, biology, life style habits and all their social relationships have been structured by self-interest have isolated themselves from the whole which is the truth and will die like saplings on the forest floor as the shadows of everything else blot out your light and your life, which is what you did in your competitive society and it’s conditioning as egoic selfishness – a fatal spiritual disease. Everything is about yourself, your desire, your security, your pointless little piggy dreams. Nothing is about the truth or humanity or love. But the piggy’s paradise on Earth is a slaughterhouse in the sky where devils here on Earth take turns making bacon burn.
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I don’t eat pork anymore. Gave it up. I still want a porkchop off of the pig, but I won’t eat it myself. I want some candied turkey bacon instead. Maybe a hot cup of mint tea to go with it.
Nice poetry though. You see through my transparency. That’s not exactly a skill though because I’m very 2-dimensional. Self-imposed exile is an accurate way of describing my experience, yes. The Bhagavad Gita says a yogi sees no difference between a dog, a dog eater, and a saint. The Sanskrit word for dog eater also means outcaste. We’ve dug my grave together, I’m more than capable of burying myself alone. Or maybe I dug my grave alone and we can bury me together. Welcome to the zombie apocalypse.
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Haha! I agree – its the living dead and the vampire movie all rolled into one. I love that Sanksrit fact of dog eater also meaning outcast etc. No wonder you are sane like me, having falling fowl of this insane society! It is starting to feel like a movie now so less real – hopefully it’ll turn into a cartoon after that (Scoobie Doo!) Nice to meet a kindred spirit.
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Dang, and here I thought you hated me.
A good text is The Vimalakirti Sutra. He’s not 2d, he’s pandimensional! Not sure if there’s an audiobook available.
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