{"id":21411,"date":"2023-06-19T09:31:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T13:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21411"},"modified":"2023-06-19T09:31:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T13:31:17","slug":"huntingtons-spreads-like-fire-in-the-brain-scientists-say-theyve-found-the-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21411","title":{"rendered":"Huntington&#8217;s spreads like &#8216;fire in the brain.&#8217; Scientists say they&#8217;ve found the spark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Jon Hamilton on June 19, 2023 for NPR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diseases like Alzheimer&#8217;s, Parkinson&#8217;s, and Huntington&#8217;s are caused by toxic clumps of proteins that spread through the brain like a forest fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now scientists say they&#8217;ve figured out how the fire starts in at least one of these diseases. They&#8217;ve also shown how it can be extinguished. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2023\/06\/19\/1182881226\/huntingtons-spreads-like-fire-in-the-brain-alzheimers-parkinsons\">Here&#8230;<\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jon Hamilton on June 19, 2023 for NPR Diseases like Alzheimer&#8217;s, Parkinson&#8217;s, and Huntington&#8217;s are caused by toxic clumps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26,12],"tags":[92,717,118,716,718],"class_list":["post-21411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-alzheimersdementia","category-health-care-general","tag-aging","tag-alzheimers-2","tag-dementia","tag-huntingtons","tag-medical-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21411","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21412,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21411\/revisions\/21412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}