Now we'll see if we're depressed: With a blood test

After five years of depression can be diagnosed with a blood test, according to the Italian newspaper” Il Mesaggero”

This test will help personalise the diagnosis of treatment as well as to find out who is most at risk of developing the disease”, says the indictment Dario Asses and Grazino Pinna of the University of Illinois in Chicago, in a text published in the magazine”Expert Revire of Proteomics”.

“Test will assess the presence or lack related to this disease and may enter clinical practice within five years. This test will serve to measure the blood levels of molecules such as neurosteroids produced in our brain, but are also present in blood and altered by stress”, Pinna explains.

“We are developing in our laboratory a blood test that requires in various molecules, at least 20, which is crucial to understanding who is suffering from depression or who is prone to posttraumatic stress disorder”, he says.

The test also means that which of the depressed can take drugs instead of others, thus helping to personalize therapies.