All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 February Pharmaceuticals in waterways pose risk to fish Pharmaceuticals in waterways pose risk to fish 10/02/2021 | 3 MINS Fish populations around the world are at risk due to growing levels of pharmaceutical contamination in waterways, according to an international team of researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology, Monash University, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and New York University. The findings, published in Proceeding of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, reveal that water pollution by the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac) compromises resilience in fish populations by dramatically reducing differences in the behaviour of individuals. ΓÇ£For fish populations to thrive in the face of environmental change, members of a group need to behave differently from each other." Dr Giovanni Polverino Fluoxetine ΓÇô which is used in the treatment of depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder ΓÇô is one of the worldΓÇÖs most prescribed psychotherapeutic drugs, and a common environmental contaminant of surface
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 February Pharmaceuticals in waterways pose risk to fish Pharmaceuticals in waterways pose risk to fish 10/02/2021 | 3 MINS Fish populations around the world are at risk due to growing levels of pharmaceutical contamination in waterways, according to an international team of researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology, Monash University, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and New York University.
The findings, published in Proceeding of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, reveal that water pollution by the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac) compromises resilience in fish populations by dramatically reducing differences in the behaviour of individuals.
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ΓÇ£For fish populations to thrive in the face of environmental change, members of a group need to behave differently from each other." Dr Giovanni Polverino Fluoxetine ΓÇô which is used in the treatment of depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder ΓÇô is one of the worldΓÇÖs most prescribed psychotherapeutic drugs, and a common environmental contaminant of surface
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