{"id":203742,"date":"2025-01-14T13:24:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T19:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/your-brain-has-dormant-viruses-that-come-to-life-if-you-hit-your-head"},"modified":"2025-01-14T13:24:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T19:24:35","slug":"your-brain-has-dormant-viruses-that-come-to-life-if-you-hit-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/your-brain-has-dormant-viruses-that-come-to-life-if-you-hit-your-head","title":{"rendered":"Your brain has dormant viruses that come to life if you hit your head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-brain-has-dormant-viruses-that-come-to-life-if-you-hit-your-head2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Concussions and repeated head injuries are no longer seen as mere occupational hazards of contact sports; they are now recognized as serious health concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Recent research from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tufts.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tufts University<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Oxford<\/a> reveals a potential link between head trauma and the activation of dormant viruses in the brain, which may lead to long-term neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scisignal.ado6430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Science Signaling<\/em><\/a>, suggest that early preventive treatments using antiviral drugs could help mitigate these risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concussions and repeated head injuries are no longer seen as mere occupational hazards of contact sports; they are now recognized as serious health concerns. Recent research from Tufts University and the University of Oxford reveals a potential link between head trauma and the activation of dormant viruses in the brain, which may lead to long-term [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203742","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=203742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}