Sleep loss encourages spread of toxic Alzheimer’s protein
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 10:20
in Health & Medicine
In addition to memory loss and confusion, many people with Alzheimer’s disease have trouble sleeping. Now an NIH-funded team of researchers has evidence that the reverse is also true: a chronic lack of sleep may worsen the disease and its associated memory loss. The new findings center on a protein called tau, which accumulates in […]