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Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Primary research Open Access Season of birth, clinical manifestations and Dexamethasone Suppression Test in unipolar major depression 1 1 2 Konstantinos N Fountoulakis* , Apostolos Iacovides , Michael Karamouzis , 1 1 George S Kaprinis and Charalambos Ierodiakonou 1 2 Address: Third Department of Psychiatry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and Laboratory of Biochemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Email: Konstantinos N Fountoulakis* - kfount@med.auth.gr; Apostolos Iacovides - iacovid@med.auth.gr; Michael Karamouzis - mkaram@med.auth.gr; George S Kaprinis - kaprinis@med.auth.gr; Charalambos Ierodiakonou - kfount@med.auth.gr * Corresponding author Published: 3 August 2007 Received: 9 March 2007 Accepted: 3 August 2007 Annals of General Psychiatry 2007, 6:20 doi:10.1186/1744-859X-6-20 This article is available from: /content/6/1/20 © 2007 Fountoulakis et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Reports in the literature suggest that t