Table 1. Demographic and Clinical Characteristics in Healthy and MDD Women.

Characteristic	Healthy controls (HC) (n=13)		Remitted MDD women (MDD) (n=11)		Between-group comparisons	t	P value
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age (years)	45.2	2.2	47.4	2.1	MDD>HC	4.01	0.001
BMI	28.4	7.9	29.6	6.2
Parental SESa	5.3	1.7	5.8	2.1
Education (years)	14.5	2.0	14.5	1.8
Estimated full scale IQb	106.3	13.6	104.0	12.2
Age at symptom onset (years)	—		23.3	9.0
Duration of illness (years)	—		24.3	9.5
Duration of recovery (years)	—		5.7	6.1
	n	%	n	%
Handedness (right)	13	100	11	100
Ethnicity (% Caucasian)	13	100	11	100
Current psychotropic medicationc	—	—	6	54.5
Comorbid diagnosis
Currentd	—	—	4	36.3
Paste	—	—	4	36.3

^aParental socioeconomic status (SES) was a composite index of family income, education, and occupation and ranged from 1.7 (low) to 8.3 (high).

^bFull scale IQ estimated using the sum of age-scaled scores from the WAIS-R Vocabulary and Block Design subtests, and the conversion table C-37 from Sattler, 1992 (p. 851).

^c6 MDD women were currently taking psychotropic medications: sertraline, venlafaxine, fluoxetine (n=3), bupropion, citalopram, methylphenidate.

^dCurrent comorbid Axis 1 diagnoses in the MDD group included: three subjects with Panic Disorder, without Agorophobia; one subject with Dysthymic Disorder; and one subject with Specific Phobia, Situational Type. In the HC group, there were no subjects with current Axis 1 diagnoses.

^ePast comorbid Axis 1 diagnoses in the MDD group included: two subjects with Alcohol Abuse; one subject with Alcohol Dependence; one subject with Cannabis Abuse; and one subject with Cocaine Abuse. In the HC group, there were no subjects with past Axis 1 diagnoses.