{"id":88031,"date":"2019-02-20T17:23:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/association-between-alzheimers-and-high-brain-iron-to-be-tested-in-new-clinical-trial"},"modified":"2019-02-20T17:23:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:23:02","slug":"association-between-alzheimers-and-high-brain-iron-to-be-tested-in-new-clinical-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/association-between-alzheimers-and-high-brain-iron-to-be-tested-in-new-clinical-trial","title":{"rendered":"Association between Alzheimer\u2019s and high brain iron to be tested in new clinical trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/association-between-alzheimers-and-high-brain-iron-to-be-tested-in-new-clinical-trial2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study published in the journal <em class=\"\">Molecular Psychiatry<\/em> is suggesting high iron levels in the brain may fundamentally trigger the progressive neurodegeneration associated with dementia and Alzheimer\u2019s disease. A clinical trial is now underway exploring whether Alzheimer\u2019s-related cognitive decline can be slowed by lowering brain iron levels.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/brain-iron-dementia-alzheimers-clinical-trial\/58568\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/brain-iron-dementia-alzheimers-clinical-trial\/58568\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry is suggesting high iron levels in the brain may fundamentally trigger the progressive neurodegeneration associated with dementia and Alzheimer\u2019s disease. A clinical trial is now underway exploring whether Alzheimer\u2019s-related cognitive decline can be slowed by lowering brain iron levels.<\/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-88031","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\/88031","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=88031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}