{"id":223269,"date":"2025-10-11T20:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/for-the-first-time-scientists-pinpoint-brain-cells-linked-to-depression"},"modified":"2025-10-11T20:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:04:54","slug":"for-the-first-time-scientists-pinpoint-brain-cells-linked-to-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/for-the-first-time-scientists-pinpoint-brain-cells-linked-to-depression","title":{"rendered":"For the first time, scientists pinpoint brain cells linked to depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-scientists-pinpoint-brain-cells-linked-to-depression.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists identified two types of brain cells, neurons and microglia, that are altered in people with depression. Through genomic mapping of post-mortem brain tissue, they found major differences in gene activity affecting mood and inflammation. The findings reinforce that depression has a clear biological foundation and open new doors for treatment development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists identified two types of brain cells, neurons and microglia, that are altered in people with depression. Through genomic mapping of post-mortem brain tissue, they found major differences in gene activity affecting mood and inflammation. The findings reinforce that depression has a clear biological foundation and open new doors for treatment development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1965,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-mapping","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223269","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=223269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}