{"id":172501,"date":"2023-09-21T11:22:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T16:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/exploring-the-mind-mitochondria-connection"},"modified":"2023-09-21T11:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T16:22:53","slug":"exploring-the-mind-mitochondria-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/exploring-the-mind-mitochondria-connection","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the mind-mitochondria connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/idJo0hpLhyI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As befits the child of a scientist, Martin Picard\u2019s young son, 3, is already learning about biology with an age-appropriate textbook, \u201cCell Biology for Babies.\u201d Picard winces a little whenever the book calls mitochondria the \u201cpowerhouses of the cell\u201d but figures he has plenty of time as his son grows older to explain why the tiny organelles are much more than simple energy sources.<\/p>\n<p>Picard is a leading proponent of mitochondrial psychobiology (a phrase he coined), an emerging field that examines how psychological states like stress influence mitochondrial functions, which in turn influence mental and physical health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe powerhouse analogy is outdated and one-dimensional and can impede science by limiting researchers\u2019 perceptions of what mitochondria can do,\u201d says Picard, associate professor of behavioral medicine in psychiatry and neurology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As befits the child of a scientist, Martin Picard\u2019s young son, 3, is already learning about biology with an age-appropriate textbook, \u201cCell Biology for Babies.\u201d Picard winces a little whenever the book calls mitochondria the \u201cpowerhouses of the cell\u201d but figures he has plenty of time as his son grows older to explain why the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172501","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}