{"id":191252,"date":"2024-06-15T00:23:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T05:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/theres-a-strange-link-between-depression-and-body-temperature-study-finds"},"modified":"2024-06-15T00:23:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T05:23:48","slug":"theres-a-strange-link-between-depression-and-body-temperature-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/theres-a-strange-link-between-depression-and-body-temperature-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a Strange Link Between Depression And Body Temperature, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-a-strange-link-between-depression-and-body-temperature-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To better treat and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/ketamine-can-treat-depression-as-effectively-as-electroconvulsive-therapy\">prevent depression<\/a>, we need to understand more about the brains and bodies in which it occurs.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, a <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/md-journal\/fulltext\/2018\/08100\/predictive_markers_of_depression_in_hypertension.22.aspx\">handful of studies<\/a> have <a href=\"https:\/\/karger.com\/nps\/article-abstract\/47\/3\/120\/232857\/Depressed-Patients-Have-Higher-Body-Temperature-5\">identified links<\/a> between depressive symptoms and body temperature, yet their small sample sizes have left too much room for doubt.<\/p>\n<p>In a more recent study published in February, researchers led by a team from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) analyzed data from 20,880 individuals collected over seven months, confirming that those with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/depression\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">depression<\/a> tend to have higher body temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To better treat and prevent depression, we need to understand more about the brains and bodies in which it occurs. Curiously, a handful of studies have identified links between depressive symptoms and body temperature, yet their small sample sizes have left too much room for doubt. In a more recent study published in February, researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191252","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=191252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}