{"id":225451,"date":"2025-11-19T13:22:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/clogged-drains-in-the-brain-likely-an-early-warning-sign-of-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2025-11-19T13:22:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:22:45","slug":"clogged-drains-in-the-brain-likely-an-early-warning-sign-of-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/clogged-drains-in-the-brain-likely-an-early-warning-sign-of-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"Clogged \u2018drains\u2019 in the brain likely an early-warning sign of Alzheimer\u2019s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/clogged-drains-in-the-brain-likely-an-early-warning-sign-of-alzheimers-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrains\u201d in the brain, responsible for clearing toxic waste in the organ, tend to get clogged up in people who show signs of developing Alzheimer\u2019s disease, a study by researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has discovered.<\/p>\n<p>This suggests that such clogged drains, a condition known as \u201cenlarged perivascular spaces,\u201d are a likely early-warning sign for Alzheimer\u2019s, a common form of dementia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince these brain anomalies can be visually identified on routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans performed to evaluate <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cognitive+decline\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cognitive decline<\/a>, identifying them could complement existing methods to detect Alzheimer\u2019s earlier, without having to do and pay for additional tests,\u201d said Associate Professor Nagaendran Kandiah from NTU\u2019s Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) who led the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDrains\u201d in the brain, responsible for clearing toxic waste in the organ, tend to get clogged up in people who show signs of developing Alzheimer\u2019s disease, a study by researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has discovered. This suggests that such clogged drains, a condition known as \u201cenlarged perivascular spaces,\u201d are a likely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225451","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\/225451","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}