Steven Kazmierczak's Northern Illinois University shooting sparked another hard look at the linkage between stopping use of antidepressant drugs like Prozac and a rise in violent tendencies. The conclusion of medics is that the halt in the gunman's Prozac therapy had no direct link to his shooting spree.

But while the connection was not established, medical experts said the NIU incident stressed stopping antidepressant therapy without directions from doctors is risky

New research is shedding light on why children who take common antidepressants sometimes become more aggressive or even suicidal. Scientists who administered the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) Prozac to both juvenile and adult hamsters found that the young hamsters became aggressive while the adult hamsters did not. Their conclusion was simple: adult brains and and juvenile brains are different.

The FDA issued Prozac (fluoxetine) a "black box" waring in the Fall of 2004 after findings showed an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in some children and adolescents taking the drug

A major new study shows that, contrary to recent controversy that antidepressants may increase risk of suicide in users, antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have prevented thousands of suicides since they were introduced in 1988.

Dr. Julio Licino, chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Miami Miller school of Medicine says, "As the number of [SSRI] prescriptions go up, the number of suicides go down

A new study claims that the antidepressant drug, Prozac, is ineffective at helping women with anorexia nervosa maintain a normal body weight, nor does it reduce the risk of relapsing.

The study goes against years of Prozac prescriptions which were previously believed to help treat the life-threatening eating disorder

According to the European Medicines Agency (EMEA), the anti-depressant drug, Prozac, may be prescribed for children as young as eight.

The Agency believes that in preteens afflicted with severe depression and which do not respond to therapy, 10mg of the drug will prove useful