Antidepressants In the Water Are Making Shrimp Suicidal 182
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from the crustacean-frustration dept.
from the crustacean-frustration dept.
Antidepressants may help a lot of people get up in the morning but new research shows they are making shrimp swim into that big bowl of cocktail sauce in the sky. Alex Ford, a marine biologist at the University of Portsmouth, found that shrimp exposed to the antidepressant fluoxetine are 5 times more likely to swim towards light instead of away from it. Shrimp usually swim away from light as it is associated with birds or fishermen.
So BP is SAVING crustaceans? (Score:5, Funny)
going shrimping this weekend... (Score:4, Funny)
with a some ground up anti-depressants and a flashlight. hope to catch some happy shrimp.
Re:So BP is SAVING crustaceans? (Score:4, Funny)
That's not oil, that's Texas Tea Sauce! BTW, how do the new fearless-shrimp taste anyway? Would they now be attracted to cocktail sauce as well? We need an expensive study here!
Re:Hard to say, without delving deeper... (Score:4, Funny)
Since you can't really put a shrimp on a shrink-couch and ask it about its feelings,
Of course you can!
it is very hard to say whether the shrimp are "suicidal" or whether their fear responses are being blunted.
Ah well, that's true, since they aren't so big in the "answering" department.
Blue Suicidal Shrimp Cult (Score:2, Funny)
www.suicideshrimp.com (Score:4, Funny)
Whereas some people see disturbing potential side effects of our best attempts to regulate brain chemistry, I see a business opportunity and a way to meet heavily-tattooed hot short girls.
Re:Antidepressants can make people suicidal (Score:3, Funny)
I still feel glad whenever I feel any form of anxiety
Does that worry you? If you can get worked up about anxiety inducing gladness, here comes the total bliss feedback loop! Just watch your heart rate, please.
Re:Bummer (Score:5, Funny)
Eat some shrimp; you'll feel better.
Re:chocolate shrimp (Score:3, Funny)
I bet the sea birds eating the shrimp have high levels of Prozac too... humm.. chocolate seagulls....
You, uh, see those things on the ground by the seagulls? Those aren't tootsie rolls. Just a public service notification here.
Re:So BP is SAVING crustaceans? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:So BP is SAVING crustaceans? (Score:3, Funny)
With apologies to Forest Gump (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hard to say, without delving deeper... (Score:5, Funny)
What's the point? Struggle in the plankton race just to end up in some human's scampi? You work and work and end up covered in cocktail sauce? That's it, goodbye cruel world!
That depends (Score:3, Funny)
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp are the wingnuts of the sea. There's suicidal shrimp, paranoid shrimp, depressed shrimp, manic shrimp, psychotic shrimp, neurotic shrimp, borderline personality shrimp, obsessive compulsive shrimp, narcissistic shrimp, agoraphobic shrimp, social anxiety disordered shrimp, schizophrenic shrimp, munchausen's by proxy shrimp, cyclothymic shrimp, anorexic shrimp, catatonic shrimp, tourette's shrimp, PTSD shrimp, Asperger's shrimp, that's... that's about it.