{"id":229038,"date":"2026-01-14T17:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/near-atomic-imaging-reveals-promising-target-for-brain-on-fire-condition"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:04:37","slug":"near-atomic-imaging-reveals-promising-target-for-brain-on-fire-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/near-atomic-imaging-reveals-promising-target-for-brain-on-fire-condition","title":{"rendered":"Near-atomic imaging reveals promising target for \u2018Brain on Fire\u2019 condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/near-atomic-imaging-reveals-promising-target-for-brain-on-fire-condition2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have identified a promising target for treatment of a devastating autoimmune disease affecting the brain.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery could lead to the development of new therapies for a disease triggered by an attack on one of the key neurotransmitter receptors in the brain, the NMDA receptor. It also raises the potential for a blood test to detect a signal of the condition and enable earlier treatment with existing therapies.<\/p>\n<p>The study from Oregon Health &amp; Science University is published in Science Advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have identified a promising target for treatment of a devastating autoimmune disease affecting the brain. The discovery could lead to the development of new therapies for a disease triggered by an attack on one of the key neurotransmitter receptors in the brain, the NMDA receptor. It also raises the potential for a blood test [\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-229038","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\/229038","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=229038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}