It has been recently revealed in a report that blood tests might be useful in detecting depression. The tests recently conducted have been published in the Molecular Psychiatry journal and it was said that if the ongoing tests continue to fair well, there might soon be a trend created according to which depression might be measured in ones blood test.

It was revealed by Jennifer L. Payne, from the Mood Disorders Center at the John Hopkins Hospital from Baltimore, that depression is affecting as many as one in every ten people in the United States and it would really good, if a way of determining it can be found, something that is more subjective and concrete, than simply asking questions to the person.

"Psychiatry is a field that is begging for tests because all of our diagnoses, for the most part, are based on clinical assessments, and clinical assessments are very subjective and can be biased", she said.

There is the need for a detailed and concrete method to determine whether or not a person has a particular disease. There are many cases in which the people are not able to explain their problem to the doctors and this ends up in giving them treatment, which they don't even require. It would be really good if something as simple as a blood test would be able to determine whether one is really depressed r not. This would prove to be of great help in the medicine field.

This new tests is being developed by Ridge Diagnostics and the name of the test is MDDScore and shall son be developed by the company. Once they are done, there will be a number of tests done to determine the worth of these before they are out for sale.