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Editor: Robert Binstock
Profession: Paxil Side Effect Attorney

Category: Paxil News

Helen Fisher, an evolutionary anthropologist at Rutgers University, believes Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac and other antidepressants alter brain chemistry that may be to blame altering the brain's ability to fall in love.

The theory is outlined in a chapter of her book "Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience, collaborated with J. Anderson Thomson of the University of Virginia. The book does not just talk about the known ability of the drugs to dampen sexual desire and often time's performance. They take it further to say the drugs also zap the craving for wanting to find a mate, possibly, altering the brain's ability to fall in love.

Given the widespread use of antidepressants, this would be bad news. According to a 2004 report released by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, approximately 10 percent of adult women and 4 percent of adult men take antidepressants.

The research still lacks concrete evidence that Americans are having trouble falling in love. However, scientists have animal and laboratory science along with human studies to further intrigue their research appetites.