{"id":108871,"date":"2020-06-19T00:42:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T07:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/researchers-uncover-new-insights-into-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2020-06-19T00:42:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T07:42:44","slug":"researchers-uncover-new-insights-into-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/researchers-uncover-new-insights-into-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"Researchers uncover new insights into Alzheimer\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-uncover-new-insights-into-alzheimers-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study by Florida State University researchers may help answer some of the most perplexing questions surrounding Alzheimer\u2019s disease, an incurable and progressive illness affecting millions of families around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>FSU Assistant Professor of Psychology Aaron Wilber and graduate student Sarah Danielle Benthem showed that the way two parts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a> interact during sleep may explain symptoms experienced by Alzheimer\u2019s patients, a finding that opens up new doors in dementia research. It is believed that these interactions during sleep allow memories to form and thus failure of this normal system in a brain of a person with Alzheimer\u2019s disease may explain why memory is impaired.<\/p>\n<p>The study, a collaboration among the FSU Program in Neuroscience, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, was published online in the journal <i>Current Biology<\/i> and will appear in the publication\u2019s July 6 issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study by Florida State University researchers may help answer some of the most perplexing questions surrounding Alzheimer\u2019s disease, an incurable and progressive illness affecting millions of families around the globe. FSU Assistant Professor of Psychology Aaron Wilber and graduate student Sarah Danielle Benthem showed that the way two parts of the brain interact [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}