{"id":165409,"date":"2023-06-08T21:22:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T02:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/brain-tumors-can-rewire-the-brain-and-we-just-found-out-how"},"modified":"2023-06-08T21:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T02:22:53","slug":"brain-tumors-can-rewire-the-brain-and-we-just-found-out-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/brain-tumors-can-rewire-the-brain-and-we-just-found-out-how","title":{"rendered":"Brain Tumors Can Rewire The Brain, And We Just Found Out How"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tAFbM6Zhz7k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have long known that brain tumors, specifically a type of tumor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK441874\/\">called a glioma<\/a>, can affect a person\u2019s cognitive and physical function.<\/p>\n<p>Patients with <a href=\"https:\/\/rarediseases.info.nih.gov\/diseases\/2491\/glioblastoma\">glioblastoma, the most fatal type of brain tumor<\/a> in adults, experience an especially drastic decline in quality of life. Glioblastomas are thought to impair normal brain functions <a href=\"https:\/\/mayfieldclinic.com\/pe-braintumor.htm\">by compressing<\/a> and causing healthy tissue to swell, or competing with them for blood supply.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly causes cognitive decline in brain tumor patients is still unknown. In our recently published research, we found that tumors can not only remodel neural circuits, but that <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41586-023-06036-1\">brain activity itself can fuel tumor growth<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have long known that brain tumors, specifically a type of tumor called a glioma, can affect a person\u2019s cognitive and physical function. Patients with glioblastoma, the most fatal type of brain tumor in adults, experience an especially drastic decline in quality of life. Glioblastomas are thought to impair normal brain functions by compressing and [\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-165409","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\/165409","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=165409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}