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This article is part of the supplement: International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 3rd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour

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Female depression

Vasileios Kontaxakis

1st Department of Psychiatry, Eginition Hospital, Athens University Medical School, Greece

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from International Society on Brain and Behaviour: 3rd International Congress on Brain and Behaviour
Thessaloniki, Greece. 28 November – 2 December 2007

Annals of General Psychiatry 2008, 7(Suppl 1):S15doi:10.1186/1744-859X-7-S1-S15

The electronic version of this abstract is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.annals-general-psychiatry.com/content/7/S1/S15

Published:

17 April 2008

© 2008 Kontaxakis; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

Oral presentation

Depression is different in women. It is well known that depression in women occurs at a rate twice that of men. Women often experience different symptoms such as somatic symptoms, reverse vegetate symptoms or anxiety and more often experience seasonal affective disorder. Depression in women has a different course and a different response to treatment. Women may take longer to respond to antidepressant therapy, require lower dosages and experience more side effects than men. Yet, women attempted suicide more often but much less often successfully. Mood disorders in women include depressive syndromes during specific periods of their life cycle such as: the premenstrual dysphoric syndrome, the depressive syndrome during pregnancy, the postpartum mood disorders and the depressive syndromes during the perimenopausal period.

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