{"id":90678,"date":"2019-05-13T15:04:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T22:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/detecting-dementias-damaging-effects-before-its-too-late"},"modified":"2019-05-13T15:04:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T22:04:19","slug":"detecting-dementias-damaging-effects-before-its-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/detecting-dementias-damaging-effects-before-its-too-late","title":{"rendered":"Detecting dementia\u2019s damaging effects before it\u2019s too late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/detecting-dementias-damaging-effects-before-its-too-late2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists might have found an early detection method for some forms of dementia, according to new research by the University of Arizona and the University of Toronto\u2019s Baycrest Health Sciences Centre.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study published in the journal <i>Neuropsychologia<\/i> last month, patients with a rare neurodegenerative <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a> disorder called Primary Progressive Aphasia, or PPA, show abnormalities in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+function\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain function<\/a> in areas that look structurally normal on an MRI scan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to study how degeneration affects function of the brain,\u201d said Aneta Kielar, the study\u2019s lead author and assistant professor in the UA Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-05-dementia-effects-late.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists might have found an early detection method for some forms of dementia, according to new research by the University of Arizona and the University of Toronto\u2019s Baycrest Health Sciences Centre. According to the study published in the journal Neuropsychologia last month, patients with a rare neurodegenerative brain disorder called Primary Progressive Aphasia, or PPA, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90678","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}