{"id":221161,"date":"2025-08-30T00:06:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scientists-reverse-dementia-like-memory-loss-in-mice-by-supercharging-brain-cells"},"modified":"2025-08-30T00:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:06:31","slug":"scientists-reverse-dementia-like-memory-loss-in-mice-by-supercharging-brain-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/scientists-reverse-dementia-like-memory-loss-in-mice-by-supercharging-brain-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Reverse Dementia-Like Memory Loss in Mice by Supercharging Brain Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-reverse-dementia-like-memory-loss-in-mice-by-supercharging-brain-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By boosting the activity of cellular \u2018power stations\u2019 in the brains of mice with a dementia-like condition, an international team of researchers has reversed pathological <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-new-blood-test-identifies-alzheimers-memory-loss-with-90-accuracy\">memory loss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Problems with energy-producing cellular structures called mitochondria have previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/an-inability-to-replace-our-brain-cell-s-batteries-could-be-behind-alzheimer-s-disease\">been linked<\/a> to neurodegenerative diseases such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a>. Before now, it wasn\u2019t clear if this was a cause or a consequence of these conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis work is the first to establish a cause-and-effect link between mitochondrial dysfunction and symptoms related to neurodegenerative diseases, suggesting that impaired mitochondrial activity could be at the origin of the onset of neuronal degeneration,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2025\/08\/250811104227.htm\">says<\/a> Giovanni Marsicano, a neuroscientist from the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By boosting the activity of cellular \u2018power stations\u2019 in the brains of mice with a dementia-like condition, an international team of researchers has reversed pathological memory loss. Problems with energy-producing cellular structures called mitochondria have previously been linked to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer\u2019s. Before now, it wasn\u2019t clear if this was a cause or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221161","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\/221161","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}