{"id":179522,"date":"2023-12-30T14:22:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T20:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/brain-inflammation-may-underlie-neuropsychiatric-symptoms-of-dementia"},"modified":"2023-12-30T14:22:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T20:22:58","slug":"brain-inflammation-may-underlie-neuropsychiatric-symptoms-of-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/brain-inflammation-may-underlie-neuropsychiatric-symptoms-of-dementia","title":{"rendered":"Brain Inflammation May Underlie Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-inflammation-may-underlie-neuropsychiatric-symptoms-of-dementia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m thinking my autistic sister has this. Maybe my 80 year old mother too. Short but informative article.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Neuroinflammation\u2014as measured by levels of activated microglia, the brain\u2019s immune cells\u2014was strongly linked with irritability, agitation, and nighttime disturbances in people with dementia, recent <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2023.45175\">research<\/a> found. The results, published in <i>JAMA Network Open<\/i>, were based on data from a cross-sectional study that involved 109 participants aged 38 to 87 years, about two-thirds of whom did not have cognitive impairment.<\/p>\n<p>Higher levels of microglial activation, and particularly microglial activation\u2013associated irritability, in participants with dementia were also tied to greater distress in their caregivers, family members, or close friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m thinking my autistic sister has this. Maybe my 80 year old mother too. Short but informative article. Neuroinflammation\u2014as measured by levels of activated microglia, the brain\u2019s immune cells\u2014was strongly linked with irritability, agitation, and nighttime disturbances in people with dementia, recent research found. The results, published in JAMA Network Open, were based on data [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179522","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\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}