{"id":14798,"date":"2017-11-12T01:05:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T00:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/12\/mental-health-its-in-the-mind-and-the-body-too-rachel-kelly\/"},"modified":"2017-11-12T01:05:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T00:05:40","slug":"mental-health-its-in-the-mind-and-the-body-too-rachel-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=14798","title":{"rendered":"Mental health? It\u2019s in the mind and the body, too | Rachel Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are wrong to deny the link between physical and mental health, as emerging evidence suggestsSomething is stirring in the world of mental health and for once the news is positive. This month, British scientists began testing a radically new approach to treating schizophrenia based on emerging evidence that it could be a disease of the immune system. Meanwhile, scientists are investigating the possibility that low levels of chronic inflammation may be linked to depression.Oliver Howes, a professor of molecular psychiatry at the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences and a consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley hospital in south London, is leading the schizophrenia research. \u201cIn the past, we\u2019ve always thought of the mind and the body being separate, but it\u2019s just not like that,\u201d he says. \u201cThe mind and body interact constantly and the immune system is no different. It\u2019s about changing the way we think about mental illnesses.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/nov\/12\/mental-physical-health-link\" target=\"_blank\">Mental health? It\u2019s in the mind and the body, too | Rachel Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are wrong to deny the link between physical and mental health, as emerging evidence suggestsSomething is stirring in the world of mental health and for once the news is positive. This month, British scientists began testing a radically new approach to treating schizophrenia based on emerging evidence that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}