{"id":471,"date":"2025-01-07T19:40:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T20:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2025-01-07T21:55:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T21:55:01","slug":"head-trauma-may-reactivate-dormant-viruses-increasing-alzheimers-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/head-trauma-may-reactivate-dormant-viruses-increasing-alzheimers-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Head Trauma May Reactivate Dormant Viruses, Increasing Alzheimer\u2019s Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/concussion-viruses-alzheimers-28324\/\" title=\"Head Trauma May Reactivate Dormant Viruses, Increasing Alzheimer\u2019s Risk\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1155\" height=\"770\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"This shows a brain and viruses.\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 5px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/tbi-virus-alzheimers-neuroscience-1155x770-1.jpg\"><\/a>New research suggests that concussions and repetitive head trauma may reactivate dormant viruses like HSV-1 in the brain, potentially triggering neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer\u2019s. Using a brain tissue model, scientists observed that head trauma caused latent HSV-1 to awaken, leading to hallmark Alzheimer\u2019s markers such as amyloid plaques, inflammation, and neuronal damage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research suggests that concussions and repetitive head trauma may reactivate dormant viruses like HSV-1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctuckerbatesville.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}