{"id":243639,"date":"2026-09-04T09:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/supportive-brain-cells-may-actively-drive-cognitive-decline"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:03:08","slug":"supportive-brain-cells-may-actively-drive-cognitive-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/supportive-brain-cells-may-actively-drive-cognitive-decline","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Supportive\u2019 brain cells may actively drive cognitive decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supportive-brain-cells-may-actively-drive-cognitive-decline2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brain cells that produce the protective coating around nerve fibers can become dysfunctional with age and may actively contribute to cognitive decline, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>A study found that people with more severe cognitive decline had changes to nerve fibers and myelin\u2014the protective coating around nerve fibers that helps messages travel efficiently through the brain. The study is published in the journal Nature Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Experiments in mice showed that disrupting oligodendrocytes\u2014the cells that produce myelin\u2014also altered the coating and impaired cognitive performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain cells that produce the protective coating around nerve fibers can become dysfunctional with age and may actively contribute to cognitive decline, according to new research. A study found that people with more severe cognitive decline had changes to nerve fibers and myelin\u2014the protective coating around nerve fibers that helps messages travel efficiently through the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243639","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\/243639","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}