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Short bursts of oxygen deprivation could help treat depression: Chinese study (www.scmp.com)
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Brief, controlled bouts of oxygen deprivation โ€“ essentially moments of safe suffocation โ€“ 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. This 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...

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