Thursday, February 27, 2014

Effect of Sleep Disruptions Caused by Alzheimer's Disease on Biological Clock Studied

A team of Cambridge researchers has studied fruit flies with Alzheimer's disease and found that while the biological clocks continues to tick, it has become uncoupled from the sleep-wake cycle it usually regulates, a new study published in the journal Disease Models (and) Mechanisms reveals. People with Alzheimer's often have poor biological rhythms, something that is a burden for both patients and their carers. Periods of sleep become shorter and more fragmented, resulting ...

Read More

No comments:

Post a Comment