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.