[Growth hormone (GH) test in psychiatric diagnosis]

The G.H. response to the insulin hypoglycaemia (Sachar test) is studied as differential diagnose test between endogenous and neurotic depressions in 14 patients. No correlation is seen between either a decreased response and endogenous depressive state, or an increased response and the neurotic depression. However, the great level of a response seems a good criterium to give the evolution prognostic of the depression state: the more G.H. response is high, the more the depression is fast curable.