{"id":148962,"date":"2022-10-27T12:23:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T17:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/neuroimaging-study-reveals-functional-and-structural-brain-abnormalities-in-people-with-post-treatment-lyme-disease"},"modified":"2022-10-27T12:23:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T17:23:17","slug":"neuroimaging-study-reveals-functional-and-structural-brain-abnormalities-in-people-with-post-treatment-lyme-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/neuroimaging-study-reveals-functional-and-structural-brain-abnormalities-in-people-with-post-treatment-lyme-disease","title":{"rendered":"Neuroimaging study reveals functional and structural brain abnormalities in people with post-treatment Lyme disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroimaging-study-reveals-functional-and-structural-brain-abnormalities-in-people-with-post-treatment-lyme-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a study using specialized imaging techniques, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report distinctive changes in the \u201cwhite matter\u201d and other brain tissue physiology of those with post-treatment Lyme disease, a condition affecting 10% to 20% of the nearly half a million Americans who contract Lyme disease annually.<\/p>\n<p>The study\u2019s findings, published October 26 in the journal <i>PLOS ONE<\/i>, substantiate and help validate that memory difficulties and other cognitive difficulties experienced long-term by individuals with post-treatment Lyme disease are linked to functional and structural changes in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Lyme disease, whose early symptoms may include a characteristic rash, flu-like aches and fever, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/joint+pain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">joint pain<\/a>, and fatigue, is treated using a rigorous course of antibiotics, which usually clears the illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study using specialized imaging techniques, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report distinctive changes in the \u201cwhite matter\u201d and other brain tissue physiology of those with post-treatment Lyme disease, a condition affecting 10% to 20% of the nearly half a million Americans who contract Lyme disease annually. The study\u2019s findings, published October 26 in 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":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148962","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\/148962","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=148962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}