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Nearly all depressed adolescents recover with treatment, but half relapse, study finds
November 3, 2010 by NewsBot
A study of adolescents who had a major depressive disorder found that nearly all recovered from their episode after treatment. But within five years, nearly half of them had relapsed, and females were at much higher risk of another major episode, researchers found.