{"id":187106,"date":"2024-04-10T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T19:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/brain-acidity-linked-with-multiple-neurological-disorders"},"modified":"2024-04-10T14:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T19:25:11","slug":"brain-acidity-linked-with-multiple-neurological-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/brain-acidity-linked-with-multiple-neurological-disorders","title":{"rendered":"Brain Acidity Linked With Multiple Neurological Disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-acidity-linked-with-multiple-neurological-disorders2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a global research effort, scientists have uncovered a relationship between metabolism problems in the brain and a range of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/autism-spectrum-disorder\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">autism<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease and more.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their diverse symptoms, these conditions \u2013 as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/depression\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">depression<\/a>, epilepsy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/schizophrenia\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">schizophrenia<\/a>, intellectual disability, and bipolar disorder \u2013 all involve a degree of cognitive impairment and <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/schbul\/sbu016\">often share<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-identify-new-schizophrenia-risk-genes-in-first-of-its-kind-study\">genetic<\/a> or metabolic features, hinting at a common biological basis.<\/p>\n<p>The extensive collaboration by the International Brain pH Project Consortium, involving 131 scientists from 105 labs in seven countries, identified changes in brain acidity and lactate levels in animals as key signs of this metabolic dysfunction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a global research effort, scientists have uncovered a relationship between metabolism problems in the brain and a range of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, from autism to Alzheimer\u2019s disease and more. Despite their diverse symptoms, these conditions \u2013 as well as depression, epilepsy, schizophrenia, intellectual disability, and bipolar disorder \u2013 all involve a degree of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187106","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}