{"id":236929,"date":"2026-05-11T22:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/discovery-of-brain-body-connection-offers-clues-for-parkinsons-and-alcohol-use-disorder"},"modified":"2026-05-11T22:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:22:05","slug":"discovery-of-brain-body-connection-offers-clues-for-parkinsons-and-alcohol-use-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/discovery-of-brain-body-connection-offers-clues-for-parkinsons-and-alcohol-use-disorder","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of brain-body connection offers clues for Parkinson\u2019s and alcohol use disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-of-brain-body-connection-offers-clues-for-parkinsons-and-alcohol-use-disorder.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When danger lurks, instinct keeps us safe. It compels us to run from a burning building or wrestle a knife-wielding attacker to the ground. It also adjusts our body physiology to support these behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>Survival helps explain why. But the mechanisms that link the brain and the body\u2014the \u201cswitch\u201d between rest and action\u2014have long been shrouded in mystery.<\/p>\n<p>A research team at Rutgers University-New Brunswick thinks they may have identified a key mechanism, and the findings may hold important clues to how diverse neurological conditions, such as alcohol use disorder and Parkinson\u2019s, could be diagnosed and treated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When danger lurks, instinct keeps us safe. It compels us to run from a burning building or wrestle a knife-wielding attacker to the ground. It also adjusts our body physiology to support these behaviors. Survival helps explain why. But the mechanisms that link the brain and the body\u2014the \u201cswitch\u201d between rest and action\u2014have long been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236929","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=236929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}