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CHICAGO -- Viagra's effect in women has been disappointing, but a new small study finds those on antidepressants may benefit from taking the little blue pills. The research involving 98 pre-menopausal women found Viagra helped with orgasm. But the benefits did not extend to other aspects of sex such as desire, researchers report in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association. Read more...

Have we medicated away romance? That's the question being asked by scientists who study romantic love and relationships and the chemical beginnings of both in the brain. The focus is on the widespread prescribing of antidepressants, which are designed to affect brain chemicals associated with depression. While it's long been known that antidepressants can interfere with a person's sex life, Read more...

Ever wondered why depression is running rampant worldwide? A British expert on brain development says that our fish-diminished diet is partly at fault. According to Michael Crawford, Ph.D., director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition at the University of North London, we are eating half the amount of oily fish we ate 50 years ago. Crawford says that this lack of fish may Read more...