{"id":233728,"date":"2026-03-20T11:17:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/blood-brain-barrier-disruption-traumatic-encephalopathy-and-cognitive-decline-in-retired-athletes"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:17:38","slug":"blood-brain-barrier-disruption-traumatic-encephalopathy-and-cognitive-decline-in-retired-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/blood-brain-barrier-disruption-traumatic-encephalopathy-and-cognitive-decline-in-retired-athletes","title":{"rendered":"Blood-brain barrier disruption, traumatic encephalopathy, and cognitive decline in retired athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blood-brain-barrier-disruption-traumatic-encephalopathy-and-cognitive-decline-in-retired-athletes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Traumatic head injuries from collision and combat sports disrupt the blood-brain barrier and trigger inflammation for years after retirement, shows a new MRI and transcriptomic analysis of retired athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more in <i>Science <\/i>TranslationalMedicine.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<i>Sci. Transl. Med.<\/i> 18, eadu6037 (2026). DOI:10.1126\/scitranslmed.adu6037<\/p>\n<p>Select the format you want to export the citation of this publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traumatic head injuries from collision and combat sports disrupt the blood-brain barrier and trigger inflammation for years after retirement, shows a new MRI and transcriptomic analysis of retired athletes. Find out more in Science TranslationalMedicine. Sci. Transl. Med. 18, eadu6037 (2026). DOI:10.1126\/scitranslmed.adu6037 Select the format you want to export the citation of this publication.<\/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-233728","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\/233728","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=233728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}