{"id":204065,"date":"2025-01-19T13:23:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T19:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/usc-study-exposes-hidden-culprit-of-dementia-in-brains-blood-vessels"},"modified":"2025-01-19T13:23:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T19:23:58","slug":"usc-study-exposes-hidden-culprit-of-dementia-in-brains-blood-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/usc-study-exposes-hidden-culprit-of-dementia-in-brains-blood-vessels","title":{"rendered":"USC Study Exposes Hidden Culprit of Dementia in Brain\u2019s Blood Vessels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/usc-study-exposes-hidden-culprit-of-dementia-in-brains-blood-vessels2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/usc\/\">USC-led<\/a> study has found that mild cognitive impairment is associated with blood vessel dysfunction in the brain\u2019s temporal lobes, the region responsible for memory.<\/p>\n<p>This vascular issue was observed in individuals both with and without amyloid buildup in the brain, indicating that microvascular dysfunction could serve as an early biomarker for dementia and a potential target for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The study, conducted by researchers from several universities, was published in the journal <em><i>Neurology<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new USC-led study has found that mild cognitive impairment is associated with blood vessel dysfunction in the brain\u2019s temporal lobes, the region responsible for memory. This vascular issue was observed in individuals both with and without amyloid buildup in the brain, indicating that microvascular dysfunction could serve as an early biomarker for dementia and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204065","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\/204065","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}