{"id":26063,"date":"2016-05-25T20:32:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T03:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/investigating-how-chemo-brain-develops-in-cancer-patients"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:22:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:22:52","slug":"investigating-how-chemo-brain-develops-in-cancer-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/investigating-how-chemo-brain-develops-in-cancer-patients","title":{"rendered":"Investigating how \u2018chemo brain\u2019 develops in cancer patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/investigating-how-chemo-brain-develops-in-cancer-patients.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting read on Chemo\u2019s impact on the brain and brain functioning known as Chemo Brain.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>During and after chemotherapy, many cancer patients describe feeling a mental fog, a condition that has been dubbed \u201cchemo brain.\u201d Why this happens is unclear, but researchers have found a new clue to understanding this syndrome. A study in the journal <i>ACS Chemical Neuroscience<\/i> reports that chemotherapy in rats affects their chemical messengers dopamine and serotonin, which are associated with cognition.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016-05-chemo-brain-cancer-patients.html\">http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016&#45;05-chemo-brain-cancer-patients.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting read on Chemo\u2019s impact on the brain and brain functioning known as Chemo Brain. During and after chemotherapy, many cancer patients describe feeling a mental fog, a condition that has been dubbed \u201cchemo brain.\u201d Why this happens is unclear, but researchers have found a new clue to understanding this syndrome. A study in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26063","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\/26063","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56585,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26063\/revisions\/56585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}