Scientists from the University of California at Berkeley have proposed a method to prevent Alzheimer’s disease. In his work published in the journal BMC Medicine Deep sleep is said to help prevent memory loss in neurodegenerative diseases.
Amyloid plaques or protein deposits in the brain are associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Healthy sleep is a fundamental aspect of memory preservation. Reducing deep sleep duration is associated with the rate at which beta-amyloid builds up in the brain, which is more likely to cause dementia.
The study’s authors analyzed data from 62 healthy elderly people. Participants were asked to sleep in a laboratory where their sleep was recorded and analyzed using an electroencephalography (EEG) machine. Positron emission tomography (PET) has also been used to quantify the amount of beta-amyloid deposits in the brain. Half of the subjects were found to have large amounts of amyloid deposits. After waking up, the participants had to take a memory test in which they had to match faces to names.
The group with higher rates of deep sleep and more deposits in the brain performed better on a memory test than the group that slept worse but had the same amount of deposits. slept worse In the group without beta-amyloid deposition, deep sleep had no effect on memory.
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