“…2003; Fombonne, 2009;Werling and Geschwind, 2013;Davies, 2014;Schaafsma and Pfaff, 2014). Major depression, which is the most prevalent mental disorder worldwide according the World Health Organization statistics (WHO, 2015), is twice more common in women than in men and such sex differences extend to the presentation, the course of the illness and the treatment efficacy (Ahnlund and Frodi, 1996;Kessler et al, 1993;Kornstein, 1997;Angst et al, 2002;Gorman, 2006;Kessler, 2007;Wittchen et al, 2011).…”