Mason and colleagues confirm a relationship between being depressed and body temperature which could be useful in a variety of contexts, for example, when developing mental health facilities. The team reports that “Data collected included both self-reported body temperature (using standard thermometers), wearable sensor-assessed distal body temperature (using an off-the-shelf wearable sensor that collected minute-level physiological data), and self-reported depressive symptoms from > 20,000 participants over the course of ~ 7 months as part of the TemPredict Study. Higher self-reported and wearable sensor-assessed body temperatures when awake were associated with greater depression symptom severity.”
Ashley Mason and 14 others. 2024. “Elevated Body Temperature is Associated with Depressive Symptoms: Results from the TemPredict Study.” Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1884, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-51567-w