{"id":110174,"date":"2020-07-19T15:24:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T22:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/adults-with-alzheimers-risk-factors-show-subtle-alterations-in-brain-networks-despite-normal-cognition"},"modified":"2020-07-19T15:24:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T22:24:59","slug":"adults-with-alzheimers-risk-factors-show-subtle-alterations-in-brain-networks-despite-normal-cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/adults-with-alzheimers-risk-factors-show-subtle-alterations-in-brain-networks-despite-normal-cognition","title":{"rendered":"Adults With Alzheimer\u2019s Risk Factors Show Subtle Alterations in Brain Networks Despite Normal Cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/adults-with-alzheimers-risk-factors-show-subtle-alterations-in-brain-networks-despite-normal-cognition2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: APOEe4, a gene associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease risk, doesn\u2019t appear to directly affect memory performance or brain activity in older adults without cognitive impairment. However, the gene does seem to influence brain regions and systems that older at-risk adults activate to support successful memory recall.<\/p>\n<p>Source: McGill University<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at McGill University and the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, in collaboration with the StoP-AD Center, have published a new paper in the Journal of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease, examining how a known genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) influences memory and brain function in cognitively intact older adults with a family history of AD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: APOEe4, a gene associated with Alzheimer\u2019s disease risk, doesn\u2019t appear to directly affect memory performance or brain activity in older adults without cognitive impairment. However, the gene does seem to influence brain regions and systems that older at-risk adults activate to support successful memory recall. Source: McGill University Researchers at McGill University and the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110174","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=110174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}