title: Biomarkers and Mental Illness: Its Not All in the Mind
author: Paul C. Guest
description: This text offers some interesting insights into how and why there has been such a slow understanding of the pathophysiology of mental illness. It sheds light on how complex metabolic and cellular forces as well as brain structures interact.  medical students considering residency in psychiatry would benefit. (Pollyanna V. Casmar, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (14), April, 2017)
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  Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21, 3039; doi:10.3390/ijms21093039 
  www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms 
  Article 
  Gender Differences in Developing Biomarker-Based 
  Major Depressive Disorder Diagnostics 
  Mike C. Jentsch 1,2,*, Huibert Burger 3, Marjolein B.M. Meddens 1, Lian Beijers 4, Edwin R. van 
  den Heuvel 5, Marcus J.M. Meddens 1,† and Robert A. Schoevers 2,6,*,† 
  1 Brainscan BV, 7418 AH Deventer, The Netherlands; marjoleinmeddens@brainscanbv.com (M.B.M.M.); 
  marcmeddens@brainscanbv.com (M.J.M.M.) 
  2 Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713 GZ 
  Groningen, The Netherlands 
  3 Department of General Practice, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713 GZ 
  Groningen, The Netherlands; h.burger@umcg.nl 
  4 Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation (ICPE), Department of Psychiatry, 
  University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands; 
  l.beijers@umcg.nl 
  5 Departmen