{"id":99932,"date":"2019-12-19T11:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T19:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/cbt-for-social-anxiety-may-have-a-protective-effect-on-cells"},"modified":"2019-12-19T11:22:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T19:22:34","slug":"cbt-for-social-anxiety-may-have-a-protective-effect-on-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/cbt-for-social-anxiety-may-have-a-protective-effect-on-cells","title":{"rendered":"CBT for social anxiety may have a protective effect on cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cbt-for-social-anxiety-may-have-a-protective-effect-on-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for patients with social anxiety not only helps to reduce anxiety levels but also seems to protect against accelerated cellular ageing, a study involving researchers at Karolinska Institutet published in the journal <i>Translational Psychiatry<\/i> reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first step towards better understanding the link between <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cellular+ageing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cellular ageing<\/a> and the treatment of psychiatric issues,\u201d says lead author Kristoffer M\u00e5nsson, researcher at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Individuals affected by mental illness are at greater risk of developing somatic conditions, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/high+blood+pressure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high blood pressure<\/a> and diabetes, earlier in life than unaffected individuals. While the reasons for this are unclear, one possible contributory factor is that mental health disorders are associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/shorter+telomeres\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">shorter telomeres<\/a> and accelerated cellular ageing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for patients with social anxiety not only helps to reduce anxiety levels but also seems to protect against accelerated cellular ageing, a study involving researchers at Karolinska Institutet published in the journal Translational Psychiatry reports. \u201cThis is the first step towards better understanding the link between cellular ageing and the treatment [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99932","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\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}