Monday 11 January 2010

New method can predict 80 percent of cases of postnatal depression

A new method can predict 80 percent of cases of postnatal depression!

A research report from Spain has been published. This study, which is the first of its kind in Spain and has been published recently in the journal Methods of Information in Medicine, gives the best results to date in terms of predicting this illness. "Now it needs clinical evaluation, and for psychiatrists to start to test it directly on patients in order to study the true potential of these tools", says Tortajada.

See the link here for more details

http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/information/news/?entryid17=75260

Elaine Hanzak
www.hanzak.com

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