Alzheimer’s linked to sleep deprivation
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A study in mice suggests lack of sleep may play a role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease, United States researchers have found.
The findings are some of the first to link sleep with the development of Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia.
Researchers at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St Louis, studied levels of amyloid beta, a protein that accumulates in the brain of people with Alzheimer’s – in mice, genetically engineered to have a version of Alzheimer’s disease. Amyloid levels rose in the screening setting.
