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How is depression specific to or different in women?

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Q. How is depression specific to or different in women?

Katherine L. Wisner, M.D.
Answer By: Katherine L. Wisner, M.D.

Norman and Helen Asher Professor

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology

Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University

“It’s the same rate of occurrence in boys and girls until puberty, when in puberty the risk for depression in women goes up dramatically, to about twice that of men and stays there …”

Video from March, 2010 - filmed at the 7th Annual Palm Beach Symposium

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