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 A blood test to detect depression is invented:

Test for Depression

Indianapolis: After 4 years of analysis, a team of American scientists has discovered substances within the blood that are a transparent sign of significant mental diseases like depression and manic depression.

        They have also developed blood tests based on these substances, i.e., biomarkers, which are currently in the experimental stages.

Depressed Person

         According to the details, a team of scientists led by Dr. Alexander B. Nichols, a psychiatrist and neurologist at Indiana University, analyzed more than 1,600 studies in a particular mental or psychiatric illness in a study that began four years ago. The presence of biomarkers in the blood was indicated.

The discovery revealed 26 biomarkers related to depression, bipolar disorder (depression-related disease) and insanity and found in the blood.

 After further research, only 12 of these biomarkers remained that could be confidently used to diagnose depression, bipolar disorder and mania.

 In the next step, in addition to discovering the genes associated with these biomarkers, a blood test was developed that could specifically identify depression and bipolar disorder.

      Dr. Alexander says the study not only identified biomarkers, but also possibly drugs that are not currently used to treat depression or other psychiatric disorders, but perhaps their Use can definitely help patients.

     How long will this test be available to the public? In this regard, Dr. Alexander says that it requires a large number of tests so that psychiatrists can accept this blood test as an alternative to the current diagnostic methods and it can become popular.