{"id":141161,"date":"2025-11-25T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141161"},"modified":"2025-11-25T02:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:00:10","slug":"short-bursts-of-oxygen-deprivation-could-help-treat-depression-chinese-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141161","title":{"rendered":"Short bursts of oxygen deprivation could help treat depression: Chinese study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBrief, controlled bouts of oxygen deprivation \u2013 essentially moments of safe suffocation \u2013 can alleviate severe depression as effectively as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and ketamine, two of the most powerful treatments known to psychiatry, Chinese scientists have concluded.<br \/>\nThis radical new approach, called acute intermittent hypoxia, harnesses a natural mechanism triggered by a temporary drop in oxygen in the brain and activates a naturally occurring compound known as adenosine, which acts&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3333915\/short-bursts-oxygen-deprivation-could-help-treat-depression-chinese-study-concludes?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBrief, controlled bouts of oxygen deprivation \u2013 essentially moments of safe suffocation \u2013 can alleviate severe depression as effectively as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}