11.   Cortisol, production of which Gold has found to be stepped up in depressed patients, can exacerbate arrhythmias, the erratic heartbeats that often precede sudden death.

12.   Depressed patients demonstrate abnormally low activity in their left frontal lobes.

13.   Doctors found exercise resulted in similar mood uplifting in depressed patients.

14.   For example, clinically depressed patients have decreased metabolic activity in the left frontal lobe and amygdala, two regions involved in planning and emotions.

15.   For instance, the most severely depressed patients were twice as likely to have considered suicide as all terminally ill patients.

16.   He also said the study showed that a drug was as good for depression among cancer patients as it was for depressed patients without cancer.

17.   How many seriously depressed patients showed significant improvement within six months?

18.   Ideally, a family practice practitioner would refer severely depressed patients to a specialist, said Wilcox.

19.   In fact, according to one study, depressed patients are nine times more likely to be divorced than the general population.

20.   In the second study, Dr. Ferguson evaluated the effect of Serzone on clinically depressed patients who previously had reported dysfunction while taking Zoloft.