{"id":246406,"date":"2026-11-03T02:27:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/scientists-discover-a-new-type-of-depression-that-common-antidepressants-may-miss"},"modified":"2026-11-03T02:27:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:27:47","slug":"scientists-discover-a-new-type-of-depression-that-common-antidepressants-may-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/scientists-discover-a-new-type-of-depression-that-common-antidepressants-may-miss","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover a New Type of Depression That Common Antidepressants May Miss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>For some people with hard-to-treat depression, the body\u2019s internal clock may help explain why standard antidepressants fall short.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-sydney\/\">University of Sydney<\/a> researchers have identified a proposed subtype called \u201ccircadian depression,\u201d marked by disrupted sleep and daily rhythms. It accounted for nearly a quarter of participants in a study of more than 10,000 Australians with severe, recurrent or persistent depression.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published in the <em>British Journal of Psychiatry<\/em>, suggest that recognizing this pattern could help clinicians identify people who may benefit from treatments targeting the body clock earlier in their care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some people with hard-to-treat depression, the body\u2019s internal clock may help explain why standard antidepressants fall short. University of Sydney researchers have identified a proposed subtype called \u201ccircadian depression,\u201d marked by disrupted sleep and daily rhythms. It accounted for nearly a quarter of participants in a study of more than 10,000 Australians with severe, [\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-246406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246406","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=246406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}