{"id":15711,"date":"2015-07-25T15:46:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T22:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/new-drug-treats-depression-in-less-than-24-hours-with-minimal-side-effects"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:26:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:26:12","slug":"new-drug-treats-depression-in-less-than-24-hours-with-minimal-side-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/new-drug-treats-depression-in-less-than-24-hours-with-minimal-side-effects","title":{"rendered":"New drug treats depression in less than 24 hours with minimal side effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-drug-treats-depression-in-less-than-24-hours-with-minimal-side-effects.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the US have been testing a new type of antidepressant medication on rats, and say it\u2019s able to treat the symptoms of depression in less than a day, compared to the three to eight weeks it takes current drugs to work. If the results can be replicated in humans, the drug could offer a much more effective option than treatments such as Prozac and Lexapro, which are only effective in only a third of patients who have been diagnosed with depression.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-drug-treats-depression-in-less-than-24-hours-with-minimal-side-effects\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in the US have been testing a new type of antidepressant medication on rats, and say it\u2019s able to treat the symptoms of depression in less than a day, compared to the three to eight weeks it takes current drugs to work. If the results can be replicated in humans, the drug could offer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69807,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711\/revisions\/69807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}