Senior author Etienne Sibille, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry at the Pitt School of Medicine remarked that despite the fact that women are two times more likely to develop depression with more severe and frequent symptoms compared with men, very little research has focused on women or has been conducted in other female animals.
Sibille said:
"It seemed to us that if there were molecular changes in the depressed brain, we might be able to better identify them in samples that come from females. Indeed, our findings give us a better understanding of the biology of this common and often debilitating psychiatric illness."
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