Sleep Loss & Alzheimer’s Disease

A new study provides some of the first indications that chronic sleep loss could play a role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease.The researchers analyzed the levels of “amyloid beta” in the brains of mice. Amyloid beta is a protein fragment.The study reports that the accumulation of amyloid beta in the brain is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease; the mice in the study were genetically