{"id":94356,"date":"2019-08-01T23:02:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T06:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/havana-syndrome-part-2-how-a-dogs-brain-may-help-solve-the-mystery-of-canadian-diplomats-cuban-nightmare"},"modified":"2019-08-01T23:02:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T06:02:28","slug":"havana-syndrome-part-2-how-a-dogs-brain-may-help-solve-the-mystery-of-canadian-diplomats-cuban-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/havana-syndrome-part-2-how-a-dogs-brain-may-help-solve-the-mystery-of-canadian-diplomats-cuban-nightmare","title":{"rendered":"Havana Syndrome, Part 2: How a dog\u2019s brain may help solve the mystery of Canadian diplomats\u2019 Cuban nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/havana-syndrome-part-2-how-a-dogs-brain-may-help-solve-the-mystery-of-canadian-diplomats-cuban-nightmare.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething happened to them. These findings of the inner ear disorder cannot be faked,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is not hysteria. It is not crickets.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Could a dog\u2019s brain offer any clues to the mysterious concussion-like syndrome affecting Canadian and American diplomats who were posted to Cuba?<\/p>\n<p>That is one of the many threads being pulled in an effort by researchers and scientists \u2014 and those affected \u2014 to better understand the condition referred to as Havana Syndrome, which has been blamed for debilitating some Canadian diplomats and their families.<\/p>\n<p>The brains of those diplomats and their spouses are being tested at Dalhousie\u2019s Brain Repair Centre. Officials there were unavailable for interviews, but one of the diplomats involved told this newspaper that early findings have amazed researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSomething happened to them. These findings of the inner ear disorder cannot be faked,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is not hysteria. It is not crickets.\u201d Could a dog\u2019s brain offer any clues to the mysterious concussion-like syndrome affecting Canadian and American diplomats who were posted to Cuba? That is one of the many threads being pulled [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94356","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\/526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}