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One has to wonder what types or levels of depression this claims to validate. Depression can be caused by a lot more than simply down times or highly impactful

One has to wonder what types or levels of depression this claims to validate. Depression can be caused by a lot more than simply down times or highly impactful life events. The brain and mind are so unbelievably mutable and plastic that I cannot possibly imagine how this could hold up to a realistically sized test group; this study followed less than 100 patients... If this test can't detect depression in, say Bipolar patients, can it really claim to detect depression?

sophacles 15y ago
Is bipolar depression the same as clinical depression? Are there actually many different things currently lumped under depression? I honestly don't know, but I think at least the first answer is "no". At the very least, if this test can be refined to reliably catch some types of depression, it can be used as a confirmation to those diagnoses, and further, help narrow down useful med, known to work well with those who suffer and who have symptoms including this positive blood test.