Risk assessment and predicting outcomes in patients with depressive symptoms: A review of potential role of peripheral blood based biomarkers.

Depression is one of the major global health challenges and a leading contributor of health related disability and costs. Depression is a heterogeneous disorder and current methods for assessing its severity in clinical practice rely on symptom count, however this approach is unreliable and inconsis...

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Main Authors: Bhautesh Dinesh Jani, Gary eMcLean, Barbara I Nicholl, Sarah JE Barry, Naveed eSattar, Frances S Mair, Jonathan eCavanagh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00018/full