Explaining the Link Between Sleep and Alzheimer’s

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Summary: A new study published in brain reveals that just one night of sleep disruption causes an increase in amyloid beta in the brains of healthy, middle aged people. A full week of sleep disturbances leads to a build up of Tau, another protein associated with Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. The study sheds light on why poor sleep has previously been associated with the development of Alzheimer’s and other dementias.

Source: WUSTL.

Poor sleep leads to increase in Alzheimer’s proteins associated with cognitive decline.

A good night’s sleep refreshes body and mind, but a poor night’s sleep can do just the opposite. A study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Radboud University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, and Stanford University has shown that disrupting just one night of sleep in healthy, middle-aged adults causes an increase in amyloid beta, a brain protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease…

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