{"id":170630,"date":"2023-08-26T09:24:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T14:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/stanford-medicine-led-research-identifies-gene-fingerprint-for-brain-aging"},"modified":"2023-08-26T09:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T14:24:35","slug":"stanford-medicine-led-research-identifies-gene-fingerprint-for-brain-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/stanford-medicine-led-research-identifies-gene-fingerprint-for-brain-aging","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Medicine-led research identifies gene \u2018fingerprint\u2019 for brain aging"},"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\/3eQvjpPijDg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most of us who\u2019ve reached middle age have noticed a slowing in memory and cognition, but scientists don\u2019t have a clear picture of the molecular changes that take place in the brain to cause it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a study in mice has determined that the most pronounced changes occur in the white matter, a type of nervous system tissue that\u2019s integral to transmitting signals across the brain. The study also examined two treatments \u2014 caloric restriction and infusions of plasma from young mice \u2014 that affect certain regions of the brain, with the plasma appearing to slow the age-related decline.<\/p>\n<p>The results offer insight into the cognitive decline of normal aging, as well as the way aging contributes to neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s diseases and multiple sclerosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us who\u2019ve reached middle age have noticed a slowing in memory and cognition, but scientists don\u2019t have a clear picture of the molecular changes that take place in the brain to cause it. Now, a study in mice has determined that the most pronounced changes occur in the white matter, a type 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-170630","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\/170630","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=170630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}