Anxiety Disorders Discoverable by Blood Test

Tomer Yaffe writes to tell us that researchers at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have discovered a technique to diagnose anxiety disorders with a simple blood test. From the article: "The researchers hope that the anxiety blood test will soon make its way into hospitals and E.R. rooms and give doctors and psychiatrists a quick and precise tool for examining, and eventually treating, these disorders." The team has also set their sights on depression, hoping for a similar technique to detect these types of disorders as well.

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What if their anxiety disorders involve needles?

[glen604]

then they'd be really screwed..

Stop squirming away from the needle! We need to run this test on you!

Re:What if their anxiety disorders involve needles

[Hey Pope Felcher . .]

. . . in that case the test would be fairly conclusive.