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Postpartum Depression And Poverty: Breaking The Cycle

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"We need a new model of delivering treatment," said Dr. Katherine Wisner, the director of the Asher Center for Research and Treatment of Depressive Disorders at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and a professor of psychiatry and …
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Biomarker Predicts Recovery from a Type of Depression

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In it, a blood test predicts who will respond well to a novel treatment for depression, and who might even fare worse.“We haven't had a test like this in psychiatry before,” says Andy Miller, a professor of psychiatry at Emory University and an author …
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