Are you the guy that tries to sell me his music at the grocery store parking lot ? <| sep |> This is the ' Harvard ' study Brigham Women ' s Hospital is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in some capacity so the PFS foundation would always tout it as a ' Harvard study ' in the press . It is possible that finasteride ' s alteration of neurosteroids causes depression which then causes the sexual symptoms reported . It ' s also possible that the subjects simply develop depression independently of the finasteride . But yes , certainly reassuring to know that it is unlikely that there is any havoc going on with AR upregulation or whatever . I also hope this will help soothe any nerves that have been fried by that ridiculous fearmongering VICE article that just recently came out .