“Based on our study and those of other researchers, we can say with some confidence that SSRI medications have an influence of fetal brain development,” said study coauthor Dr. Jiook Cha.
Dr. Mark Olfson said, "…most primary care physicians who prescribed antidepressants have little training in how to taper these medications to minimize antidepressant discontinuation symptoms."
Initially, Seroquel seemed to have few side effects or complications. “The risks are far greater than I think has been represented,” said Dr. Mark Olfson.
"There's a lot about the brain we don’t know. It’s one of the last frontiers of science," said Dr. Robert Klitzman. "We don’t know how thinking works. We barely know how memory works."
“It isn’t enough to say that kids with [autism] should be taking folinic acid, necessarily, but it is enough to motivate a larger study,” says Dr. Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele.
