{"id":149657,"date":"2022-11-07T21:23:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T03:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/a-rare-phenomenon-of-reversible-brain-shrinkage"},"modified":"2022-11-07T21:23:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T03:23:16","slug":"a-rare-phenomenon-of-reversible-brain-shrinkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/a-rare-phenomenon-of-reversible-brain-shrinkage","title":{"rendered":"A Rare Phenomenon of Reversible Brain Shrinkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-rare-phenomenon-of-reversible-brain-shrinkage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>European moles shrink their brains by 11% before the winter and grow them again by 4% by the summer.<\/p>\n<p>European moles face an existential crisis in the depths of winter. Their high-limit mammal metabolisms need more food than is available during the coldest months. Instead of migrating or hibernating to deal with the seasonal challenge, moles have devised an unexpected energy-saving strategy: shrinking their brains.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent study, a group from the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/max-planck-institute\/>Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior<\/a> headed by Dina Dechmann found that European moles shrink their brains by 11% before the winter and grow them back by 4% by summer. They are a new group of mammals known for reversibly shrinking their brains through a process known as Dehnel\u2019s phenomenon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European moles shrink their brains by 11% before the winter and grow them again by 4% by the summer. European moles face an existential crisis in the depths of winter. Their high-limit mammal metabolisms need more food than is available during the coldest months. Instead of migrating or hibernating to deal with the seasonal challenge, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149657","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}