{"id":168420,"date":"2023-07-27T00:25:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T05:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-may-have-found-mechanism-behind-cognitive-decline-in-aging"},"modified":"2023-07-27T00:25:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T05:25:33","slug":"scientists-may-have-found-mechanism-behind-cognitive-decline-in-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/scientists-may-have-found-mechanism-behind-cognitive-decline-in-aging","title":{"rendered":"Scientists May Have Found Mechanism Behind Cognitive Decline in Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-may-have-found-mechanism-behind-cognitive-decline-in-aging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have discovered what they believe to be the central mechanism behind cognitive decline associated with normal aging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mechanism involves the mis-regulation of a brain protein known as CaMKII which is crucial for memory and learning,\u201d said the study\u2019s co-senior author <a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.cuanschutz.edu\/pharmacology\/faculty\/primary-faculty\/ulli-bayer-phd\" rel=\"noopener\">Ulli Bayer,<\/a> PhD, professor of pharmacology at the <a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.cuanschutz.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener\"> University of Colorado School of Medicine<\/a>. \u201cThis study directly suggests specific pharmacological treatment strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study was published today in the journal \u2018Science Signaling.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have discovered what they believe to be the central mechanism behind cognitive decline associated with normal aging. \u201cThe mechanism involves the mis-regulation of a brain protein known as CaMKII which is crucial for memory and learning,\u201d said the study\u2019s co-senior author Ulli Bayer, PhD, professor of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168420","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}