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Frederick van der Veen’s team at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, gave 25 female volunteers a single dose of either paroxetine – a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) which briefly increases serotonin levels – or a placebo. Four hours later they were asked to watch one of two emotional movies: Brian’s Song, in which the hero dies of cancer, or Once Were Warriors, about domestic violence, and to indicate if, and to what extent certain scenes had made them cry. On another day, the women watched the second film with their treatments swapped over. ”It didn’t matter which movie they saw, we saw a strong and consistent effect of paroxetine,” says van der Veen, who presented the results at the Forum of European Neuroscience in Amsterdam last week. ”Higher serotonin levels lead to less crying.”

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