{"id":66787,"date":"2023-04-19T18:01:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-04-19\/una-nueva-tecnica-abre-la-puerta-del-cerebro-a-tratamientos-neurologicos-sin-precedentes.html"},"modified":"2023-04-19T18:01:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:01:07","slug":"una-nueva-tecnica-abre-la-puerta-del-cerebro-a-tratamientos-neurologicos-sin-precedentes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/una-nueva-tecnica-abre-la-puerta-del-cerebro-a-tratamientos-neurologicos-sin-precedentes\/","title":{"rendered":"A new technique opens the brain&#039;s door to unprecedented neurological treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/prisa\/WADJWEM3FRG23MQZHUZOOHFEOI.jpg\" width=\"7360\" height=\"4912\" alt=\"Un paciente y su m\u00e9dico, durante un tratamiento contra los temblores neurol\u00f3gicos en una m\u00e1quina de ultrasonidos de alta frecuencia, en una imagen distribuida por Insightec.\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>For many decades, neurologists have hit a wall that seemed impenetrable. It is called the blood-brain barrier and it is a complex network of blood vessels and immune cells that protects the most important organ in the body: the brain. This wall only opens to let in oxygen and a few other nutrients, but it is impregnable to most pathogens, something essential for survival. But this also has a bad side: its effect means that practically all medications designed to cure brain diseases, including cancer, fail to reach their destination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-04-19\/una-nueva-tecnica-abre-la-puerta-del-cerebro-a-tratamientos-neurologicos-sin-precedentes.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study in monkeys and patients shows how to break through the impregnable biological wall that protects the brain and thus treat Parkinson&#039;s or other ailments<\/p>","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66883,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66787\/revisions\/66883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}