Sleep loss linked to increase in Alzheimer's plaques

Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 14:42 in Health & Medicine

Chronic sleep deprivation in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease makes Alzheimer's brain plaques appear earlier and more often, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report online this week in Science Express.

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