Marker for Alzheime''s disease rises during day and falls with sleep

Monday, September 26, 2011 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

A marker for Alzheimer's disease rises and falls in the spinal fluid in a daily pattern that echoes the sleep cycle, researchers have found. The pattern is strongest in healthy young people and reinforces a link between increased Alzheimer's risk and inadequate sleep that had been discovered in animal models.

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