{"id":14893,"date":"2020-01-03T08:03:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T13:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14893"},"modified":"2020-01-03T08:03:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T13:03:48","slug":"what-researchers-thought-they-knew-about-alzheimers-disease-is-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14893","title":{"rendered":"What researchers thought they knew about Alzheimer&#8217;s disease is changing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers thought they knew about Alzheimer\u2019s disease but a new brain scanning technique is proven them wrong.\u00a0 The scan could allow doctors to predict with reasonable accuracy which brain regions will wither and atrophy in Alzheimer\u2019s by identifying the places where tau protein \u201ctangles\u201d have built up. The study findings support the growing contention that toxic tau proteins drive brain degeneration in Alzheimer\u2019s more directly than the disease\u2019s other hallmark, amyloid protein plagues. Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/health-news\/articles\/2020-01-02\/study-might-point-alzheimers-research-in-whole-new-direction\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7919\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-1024x663.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers thought they knew about Alzheimer\u2019s disease but a new brain scanning technique is proven them wrong.\u00a0 The scan could<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimersdementia","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14894,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14893\/revisions\/14894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}