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A blood test for depression?

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2012/04/29/depression-blood-tests-need-more-work-scientists-caution/kOLZyHhNkdC4nNMYgWz9KK/story.html

A test for mental illness that would be less subjective than a patient interview or an interpretation of a cluster of symptoms has long been a goal.

… Ridge Diagnostics, a San Diego company that funded Papakostas’s study, has begun selling its $745 depression blood tests in North Carolina and Southern California. Papakostas has received an honorarium and serves as a consultant to Ridge Diagnostics.

… Dr. Ronald Pies, clinical professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, said that for a variety of reasons, there is a skepticism among psychiatrists about the idea of using biomarkers to diagnose mental illnesses.