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Sleep Deprived? Study Finds Losing a Night of Sleep May Increase Alzheimer’s Biomarker
Higher Levels of Tau Detected in Young Men After One Night of No Sleep
Newswise — MINNEAPOLIS – A preliminary study has found that when young, healthy men were deprived of just one night of sleep, they had higher levels of tau, a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease, in their blood than when they had a full, uninterrupted night of rest. The study is published in the January 8, 2020, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of…
