{"id":178075,"date":"2023-12-11T22:48:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T04:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/serotonin-shortage-tracing-the-early-warning-signs-of-alzheimers"},"modified":"2023-12-11T22:48:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T04:48:54","slug":"serotonin-shortage-tracing-the-early-warning-signs-of-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/serotonin-shortage-tracing-the-early-warning-signs-of-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"Serotonin Shortage: Tracing the Early Warning Signs of Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/serotonin-shortage-tracing-the-early-warning-signs-of-alzheimers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>PET scans of people with mild cognitive impairment detected lower levels of serotonin, the brain chemical associated with positive mood, compared to those without it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Comparing PET scans of more than 90 adults with and without mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say relatively lower levels of the so-called \u201chappiness\u201d chemical, serotonin, in parts of the brain of those with MCI may play a role in memory problems including Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, recently published in the <em>Journal of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease<\/em><em>, <\/em>lend support to growing evidence that measurable changes in the brain happen in people with mild memory problems long before an Alzheimer\u2019s diagnosis, and may offer novel targets for treatments to slow or stop disease progression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PET scans of people with mild cognitive impairment detected lower levels of serotonin, the brain chemical associated with positive mood, compared to those without it. Comparing PET scans of more than 90 adults with and without mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say relatively lower levels of the so-called \u201chappiness\u201d chemical, serotonin, in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178075","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=178075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}