{"id":147168,"date":"2022-09-28T03:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T08:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/researchers-identify-new-model-of-alzheimers-as-an-autoimmune-disease"},"modified":"2022-09-28T03:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T08:22:21","slug":"researchers-identify-new-model-of-alzheimers-as-an-autoimmune-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/researchers-identify-new-model-of-alzheimers-as-an-autoimmune-disease","title":{"rendered":"Researchers identify new model of Alzheimer\u2019s as an autoimmune disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-identify-new-model-of-alzheimers-as-an-autoimmune-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Krembil Brain Institute, part of the University Health Network, have proposed a new mechanistic model (AD<sup>2<\/sup>) for Alzheimer\u2019s, looking at it not as a brain disease, but as a chronic autoimmune condition that attacks the brain.<\/p>\n<p>This novel research is published today, in Alzheimer\u2019s &amp; Dementia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t think of Alzheimer\u2019s as fundamentally a disease of the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a>. We think of it as a disease of the immune system <i>within<\/i> the brain,\u201d says Dr. Donald Weaver, co-Director of the Krembil Brain Institute and author of the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the Krembil Brain Institute, part of the University Health Network, have proposed a new mechanistic model (AD2) for Alzheimer\u2019s, looking at it not as a brain disease, but as a chronic autoimmune condition that attacks the brain. This novel research is published today, in Alzheimer\u2019s &amp; Dementia. \u201cWe don\u2019t think of Alzheimer\u2019s as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147168","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=147168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}