Few caregivers have time to take naps, but I recently read study results in a June Sleep Health article that suggest short naps can benefit cognitive health. That could mean something as simple as a brief snooze could aid your fight against Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of…

To enable researchers to study prospective links between sleep and dementia, a cutting-edge sleep unit has opened at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, England. While sleeping issues commonly occur in dementia, it’s unclear whether diseases such as Alzheimer’s cause the disturbances, or whether problems sleeping signal…

A tailored lighting intervention in nursing homes can improve sleep, mood, and behavior in patients with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study’s preliminary results. The study, “Tailored Lighting Intervention For Alzheimer’s Patients And Its Effects On Sleep, Mood And Agitation,” was presented at SLEEP 2018, the 32nd joint…

Sleep deprivation in healthy people leads to the accumulation of a protein fragment associated with abnormalities in brain function and Alzheimer’s disease. The study, “β-Amyloid accumulation in the human brain after one night of sleep deprivation,” published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the…

A poor night’s sleep may increase the levels of proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease, say researchers, noting that their findings may be especially important for people with chronic sleep disorders. The study by scientists at Stanford University, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Radboud University Medical Centre in…

Israel’s Neurim Pharmaceuticals is now recruiting up to 500 U.S. patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease for a Phase 2 trial to study the safety and efficacy of its experimental drug, piromelatine. Alzheimer’s is caused by the accumulation of faulty proteins that lead to the formation of beta-amyloid plaques, which greatly…

Self-reported sleep disturbances may be related to a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, according to the results of a study conducted at Uppsala University, in Sweden, which were recently published at the Alzheimer’s & Dementia journal. The researchers analyzed data that included 40 years of self-reports, and…

Sleeping properly may help prevent neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease, as it is during sleep that the brain cleanses its system of the “waste” it produces, as explained by Jeff Iliff, who led a University of Rochester Medical Center research team at a recent TEDMED conference, in San Francisco. The researcher…