[An experimental approach to depression in women]

Through a review of the literature concerning the preponderance of depression among women, the authors ask whether the symptoms of female depression has a specificity. The results of a study, realized in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Limoges, showed that the depression among women is not only different and preponderant, but also more acute. More than a consequence of predisposing, life events as about men, the onset of depression among women seems to depend on precipitating life events.