{"id":173059,"date":"2023-09-29T11:09:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-brain-cells-linked-to-protection-against-dementia"},"modified":"2023-09-29T11:09:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:09:12","slug":"the-brain-cells-linked-to-protection-against-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-brain-cells-linked-to-protection-against-dementia","title":{"rendered":"The brain cells linked to protection against dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-brain-cells-linked-to-protection-against-dementia2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have identified two types of brain cell linked to a reduced risk of dementia in older people \u2014 even those who have brain abnormalities that are hallmarks of Alzheimer\u2019s disease1.<\/p>\n<p>The finding could eventually lead to new ways to protect these cells before they die. The results were published in Cell on 28 September.<\/p>\n<p>Plaques in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>The most widely held theory about Alzheimer\u2019s attributes the disease to a build-up of sticky amyloid proteins in the brain. This leads to clump-like \u2018plaques\u2019 of amyloid that slowly kill neurons and eventually destroy memory and cognitive ability. But not everyone who develops cognitive impairment late in life has amyloid clumps in their brain, and\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>People with an abundance of specific neurons are more likely to escape cognitive decline despite having signs of Alzheimer\u2019s in their brains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have identified two types of brain cell linked to a reduced risk of dementia in older people \u2014 even those who have brain abnormalities that are hallmarks of Alzheimer\u2019s disease1. The finding could eventually lead to new ways to protect these cells before they die. The results were published in Cell on 28 September. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173059","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\/173059","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\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}