{"id":161962,"date":"2023-04-12T04:23:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T09:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-mysterious-connection-scientists-discover-that-suicide-significantly-increases-during-the-full-moon"},"modified":"2023-04-12T04:23:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T09:23:16","slug":"a-mysterious-connection-scientists-discover-that-suicide-significantly-increases-during-the-full-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-mysterious-connection-scientists-discover-that-suicide-significantly-increases-during-the-full-moon","title":{"rendered":"A Mysterious Connection: Scientists Discover That Suicide Significantly Increases During the Full Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-mysterious-connection-scientists-discover-that-suicide-significantly-increases-during-the-full-moon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For centuries, it has been suspected that the full moon has a mysterious impact on human behavior. Now, recent research conducted by psychiatrists at the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/indiana-university\/amp\/>Indiana University School of Medicine<\/a> has discovered that there is a correlation between the full moon and an increase in suicide deaths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to analyze the hypothesis that suicides are increased during the period around full moons and determine if high-risk patients should be followed more closely during those times,\u201d said Alexander Niculescu, MD, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p>Niculescu and his colleagues analyzed data from the Marion County coroner\u2019s office covering suicides that occurred from 2012 to 2016. The results showed a marked increase in suicide deaths during the week of the full moon, with a particularly pronounced rise among individuals over the age of 55. The team also observed that suicides were most likely to occur in the afternoon, between 3 and 4 p.m., and that the month of September was also a peak time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For centuries, it has been suspected that the full moon has a mysterious impact on human behavior. Now, recent research conducted by psychiatrists at the Indiana University School of Medicine has discovered that there is a correlation between the full moon and an increase in suicide deaths. \u201cWe wanted to analyze the hypothesis that suicides [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161962","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}