Using blood tests can screen teen depression in teenagers

In this article, they say that researchers have made a test that can diagnose depression in teens. It's a step they hope will lead to a better way to identify the disorder in young people. Diagnosing depression depends on a patient's willingness to report symptoms. This diagnose is particularly challenging, especially for teens. The researchers were able to pinpoint twenty-six markers of major depression. They looked in the blood of twenty-eight human teenagers, ages fifteen to nineteen, half of them with depression and half without. They found that eleven of the markers had showed up in the depressed teens, but not the teens that are not depressed. They were also able to diagnose different types of depression. They successfully identified teens who suffered from depression alone and other depression combined with anxiety disorders.