{"id":229393,"date":"2026-01-20T05:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-single-molecule-may-explain-how-blood-flow-in-the-brain-triggers-dementia"},"modified":"2026-01-20T05:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:02:39","slug":"a-single-molecule-may-explain-how-blood-flow-in-the-brain-triggers-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-single-molecule-may-explain-how-blood-flow-in-the-brain-triggers-dementia","title":{"rendered":"A Single Molecule May Explain How Blood Flow in The Brain Triggers Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-single-molecule-may-explain-how-blood-flow-in-the-brain-triggers-dementia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reduced blood flow to the brain is thought to be a key factor in many forms of dementia, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a>, and scientists have just identified a new mechanism regulating this flow, which may also help explain how it goes wrong.<\/p>\n<p>A fat molecule helps maintain the system\u2019s balance, researchers at the University of Vermont discovered, and in mouse models of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, disruption of this balance led to problems.<\/p>\n<p>Fixing the imbalance restored more normal blood flow, offering a hopeful new target for understanding and treating dementia-related brain changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reduced blood flow to the brain is thought to be a key factor in many forms of dementia, including Alzheimer\u2019s, and scientists have just identified a new mechanism regulating this flow, which may also help explain how it goes wrong. A fat molecule helps maintain the system\u2019s balance, researchers at the University of Vermont discovered, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229393","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\/229393","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}