By Julie Steenhuysen
Teen females are more inclined to develop depression again
Most depressed adolescents and teenagers who get treatment with drugs, therapy or both will get some relief, but nearly half will relapse within five years, U.S. researchers said on Monday. And females are by far at greatest risk, they said.
"We need to learn why females in this age range have higher chances of descending into another major depression after they have made a recovery," John Curry of Duke University in North Carolina, whose study appears in the Archives of General Psychiatry, said in a statement. read more...
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