{"id":209659,"date":"2025-03-25T01:19:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T06:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/how-diabetes-quietly-rewires-the-brains-reward-and-memory-system"},"modified":"2025-03-25T01:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T06:19:28","slug":"how-diabetes-quietly-rewires-the-brains-reward-and-memory-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/how-diabetes-quietly-rewires-the-brains-reward-and-memory-system","title":{"rendered":"How Diabetes Quietly Rewires the Brain\u2019s Reward and Memory System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-diabetes-quietly-rewires-the-brains-reward-and-memory-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Type 2 diabetes may quietly alter the brain in ways that mimic early Alzheimer\u2019s, weakening reward perception and memory signals in a key brain area called the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). In a rat study, diabetic animals still behaved normally but processed rewarding locations differently, s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type 2 diabetes may quietly alter the brain in ways that mimic early Alzheimer\u2019s, weakening reward perception and memory signals in a key brain area called the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). In a rat study, diabetic animals still behaved normally but processed rewarding locations differently, s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209659","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\/209659","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=209659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}