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Q&A with Australian Health Practitioners
What is the role of genetics in the diagnosis of depression?
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Richard Hill
Counsellor, Psychotherapist
Resident counsellor/psychotherapist at the Davis Health Centre with a solution focused approach; an international lecturer on the neuroscience and psychosocial genomics of human behaviour; author … View Profile
We don’t tend to use genetics or gene assays to try and work this thing out because there are so many behavioral aspects which make it quite clear. Certainly one can go into the genetics and then have a look when someone is diagnosed through their behavior and start to examine what perhaps are the background elements. The role of genetics is not so much in the diagnosis but perhaps later on in the development of a clearer picture and a clearer understanding of why that individual has the depression.
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