{"id":227785,"date":"2025-12-24T21:08:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T03:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/why-a-mild-brain-injury-can-trigger-alzheimers"},"modified":"2025-12-24T21:08:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T03:08:59","slug":"why-a-mild-brain-injury-can-trigger-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/why-a-mild-brain-injury-can-trigger-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"Why a mild brain injury can trigger Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-a-mild-brain-injury-can-trigger-alzheimers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine is revealing why traumatic brain injury increases the chance of developing Alzheimer\u2019s disease\u2014and the discovery is pointing to a potential strategy to prevent the progressive brain disorder.<\/p>\n<p>John Lukens, director of UVA\u2019s Harrison Family Translational Research Center in Alzheimer\u2019s and Neurodegenerative Diseases\u2014housed within the Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology\u2014and his team discovered that even one mild traumatic brain injury can set off damaging changes, paving the way for the development of Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur findings indicate that fixing brain drainage following head trauma can provide a much-needed strategy to limit the development of Alzheimer\u2019s disease later in life,\u201d said Lukens, part of UVA\u2019s Department of Neuroscience and its Center for Brain Immunology and Glia, and author on the new study <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2211124725012926\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Cell Reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine is revealing why traumatic brain injury increases the chance of developing Alzheimer\u2019s disease\u2014and the discovery is pointing to a potential strategy to prevent the progressive brain disorder. John Lukens, director of UVA\u2019s Harrison Family Translational Research Center in Alzheimer\u2019s and Neurodegenerative Diseases\u2014housed within the Paul [\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-227785","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\/227785","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=227785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}