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Saliva test could predict which teen boys get depression

Posted: February 18th, 2014, 5:54 am
by ScottMentalPod
A saliva test for teenage boys with mild symptoms of depression could help identify those who will later develop major depression, a new study says.

Researchers measured the stress hormone cortisol in teenage boys and found that ones with high levels coupled with mild depression symptoms were up to 14 times more likely to suffer clinical depression later in life than those with low or normal cortisol levels.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2014-02- ... depression

Re: Saliva test could predict which teen boys get depression

Posted: February 19th, 2014, 5:19 am
by ScottMentalPod
First biological marker for major depression could enable better diagnosis and treatment
http://www.psypost.org/2014/02/first-bi ... ment-22906

"Teenage boys who show a combination of depressive symptoms and elevated levels of the ‘stress hormone’ cortisol are up to fourteen times more likely to develop major depression than those who show neither trait..."

Re: Saliva test could predict which teen boys get depression

Posted: February 26th, 2014, 7:46 pm
by DeCreate
Wow, that's interesting! Why just boys, I wonder?

Re: Saliva test could predict which teen boys get depression

Posted: April 6th, 2014, 5:39 pm
by walklikeanegyptian
Because boys are more important than girls.

Re: Saliva test could predict which teen boys get depression

Posted: April 29th, 2014, 5:05 pm
by ScottMentalPod
DeCreate,

My guess is girls deal with stress better than boys but it probably more has to do with how hormones work in girls versus boys.