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This Week in Research: Depression Is Overdiagnosed; UMD Builds a Robo Raven

A study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health looked at 5,639 patients who’d been diagnosed as depressed — and found that only 38.4 percent of them met the 12-month criteria for depression. In other words, depression seems to be massively over-diagnosed and over-medicated in the United States. “Previous evidence has […]

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