Comfortably numb: Love and antidepressants

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It is well known that taking antidepressants can dampen your sex drive, but could they be hindering our ability to fall in love? That’s what Rutgers University anthropologist Helen Fisher is worried about. She gives us the details of her controversial theory.

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