Blood samples taken from people about to start treatment with citalopram, one of the most widely used SSRIs — a class of antidepressant — showed that those who subsequently improved in response to the drug had about half the levels of miRNA - 1202 as those who failed to respond. (newscientist.com)
To test the effect of antidepressants on moral judgements, Molly Crockett and her team at the University of Cambridge presented 24 healthy volunteers with a moral dilemma while they were under the influence of the antidepressant citalopram — a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), which increases brain serotonin levels. (newscientist.com)
But the authors say they can't rule out the possibility of an increased risk of arrhythmia in patients taking Citalopram at high doses because only a relatively small proportion of citalopram prescriptions (18 per cent) were at high doses in the study. (sciencedaily.com)