{"id":90694,"date":"2019-05-14T08:42:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T15:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/late-a-disease-that-mimicks-alzheimers-disease"},"modified":"2019-05-14T08:42:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T15:42:22","slug":"late-a-disease-that-mimicks-alzheimers-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/late-a-disease-that-mimicks-alzheimers-disease","title":{"rendered":"LATE: A Disease That Mimicks Alzheimer\u2019s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/late-a-disease-that-mimicks-alzheimers-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent article, published in the Oxford journal Brain, categorizes and draws attention to an age-related disease that impacts the brain yet is widely unknown, even among scientists: limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) [1].<\/p>\n<p>The symptoms of this disease are similar to those of Alzheimer\u2019s disease. It causes cognitive impairment and, when presenting alongside Alzheimer\u2019s disease, can lead to even faster degeneration along with heightened agitation and aggression.<\/p>\n<p>This new disease has been found to impact very specific areas of the brain \u2013 generally traveling vertically through the brain, it degenerates areas partly responsible for emotions, memory, and language, influencing different areas depending on its stage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/late-a-disease-that-mimicks-alzheimers-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article, published in the Oxford journal Brain, categorizes and draws attention to an age-related disease that impacts the brain yet is widely unknown, even among scientists: limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) [1]. The symptoms of this disease are similar to those of Alzheimer\u2019s disease. It causes cognitive impairment and, when presenting alongside Alzheimer\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90694","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}