{"id":145089,"date":"2022-08-29T02:24:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T07:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/an-alzheimers-proof-brain-ground-breaking-case-provides-clues-to-treatment-and-prevention-of-dementia"},"modified":"2022-08-29T02:24:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T07:24:55","slug":"an-alzheimers-proof-brain-ground-breaking-case-provides-clues-to-treatment-and-prevention-of-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/an-alzheimers-proof-brain-ground-breaking-case-provides-clues-to-treatment-and-prevention-of-dementia","title":{"rendered":"An Alzheimer\u2019s-Proof Brain: Ground-Breaking Case Provides Clues to Treatment and Prevention of Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-alzheimers-proof-brain-ground-breaking-case-provides-clues-to-treatment-and-prevention-of-dementia3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Due to a rare genetic mutation, Aliria Rosa Piedrahita de Villegas should have had Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Alzheimer\u2019s disease is a disease that attacks the brain, causing a decline in mental ability that worsens over time. It is the most common form of dementia and accounts for 60 to 80 percent of dementia cases. There is no current cure for Alzheimer\u2019s disease, but there are medications that can help ease the symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to a rare genetic mutation, Aliria Rosa Piedrahita de Villegas should have had Alzheimer\u2019s. Alzheimer\u2019s disease is a disease that attacks the brain, causing a decline in mental ability that worsens over time. It is the most common form of dementia and accounts for 60 to 80 percent of dementia cases. There is no [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145089","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\/145089","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}