{"id":640,"date":"2021-01-12T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2021-01-22T18:06:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T18:06:39","slug":"treatment-of-depression-with-hyperthermia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/treatment-of-depression-with-hyperthermia\/","title":{"rendered":"Treatment of depression with hyperthermia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scientists have found that sessions of hyperthermia (elevated temperature) throughout the body eliminate the severity of symptoms of depression.&nbsp;Hyperthermia is a fast-acting, safe, long-acting antidepressant.&nbsp;In&nbsp;hyperthermia, sensations of warmth affect the activity of neurons in the cerebral cortex.&nbsp;Warming up the skin to 41 \u00b0 C leads to the activation of the frontal cerebral cortex, ventral&nbsp;striatum&nbsp;, anterior cone-shaped cerebral cortex.&nbsp;The degree of cortical activation is related to the degree of pleasant sensations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In patients with depression, there are disturbances in thermoregulation, manifested by an increased body temperature and a decrease in sweat production.&nbsp;These symptoms are relieved after treatment with hyperthermia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data on the positive effect of heat do not yet make it possible to distinguish the biological effects of hyperthermia from the response to an attractive procedure (placebo effect).&nbsp;But CW&nbsp;Janssen&nbsp;et al found that a&nbsp;one-segmental&nbsp;increase in whole body temperature had a large&nbsp;antidepressant&nbsp;effect, which manifested itself within 6 weeks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found that sessions of hyperthermia (elevated temperature) throughout the body eliminate the severity of symptoms of depression.&nbsp;Hyperthermia is a fast-acting, safe, long-acting antidepressant.&nbsp;In&nbsp;hyperthermia, sensations of warmth affect the activity of neurons in the cerebral cortex.&nbsp;Warming up the skin to 41 \u00b0 C leads to the activation of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}