chief108
14th July 2010, 08:29
Antidepressants may help a lot of people get up in the morning but new research shows they are making shrimp swim into that big bowl of cocktail sauce in the sky. Alex Ford, a marine biologist at the University of Portsmouth, found that shrimp exposed to the antidepressant fluoxetine are 5 times more likely to swim towards light instead of away from it (http://io9.com/5584563/antidepressants-in-the-water-are-making-shrimp-suicidal). Shrimp usually swim away from light as it is associated with birds or fishermen.
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