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Brain enzyme discovery may open new path to treat neurodegenerative diseas
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Israeli and European scientists have uncovered a previously unknown molecular mechanism that helps explain why aging and neurological disease are so often accompanied by sleep disturbances, mood disorders, and cognitive decline -- and, crucially, how those effects may be reversed.
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Study finds how obesity linked to long Covid
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
People with excess weight are more likely to experience long-term neurological and mental health symptoms after Covid-19, including headache, vertigo, smell and taste disorders, sleep disturbance, and depression.
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Study reveals how bright-light treatment improves sleep in stressed mice
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Sleep disturbance is linked to chronic stress. In their current study, Lu Huang and colleagues uncover the brain circuit behind this behaviour and explain how bright-light treatment may combat it. The study was carried out in mice at Jinan University in China and was published in the open ac
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Heightened light sensitivity may contribute to Alzheimer's 'sundowning' an
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
According to recent Alzheimer's research from UVA Health, increased light sensitivity may be responsible for "sundowning," or the exacerbation of symptoms in the late afternoon, as well as for sleep disturbances that are thought to hasten the disease's progression.
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Worm genetics reveals key sleep-regulation pathways: Study
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
lthough the brain is thought to regulate sleep--how much, when, and how much sleep occurs--sleep deprivation affects the body, and body signals can affect sleep. The mechanisms that the body uses to regulate sleep, on the other hand, are largely unknown. According to a recent study publishe
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Study: Schizophrenia patients' symptoms grow by disrupted sleep, wakefulne
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and those from Italy described common patterns of sleep disturbances and irregularities in daily rhythms of rest and activity across patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder, or SSD, in a paper that was just published in Molecular Psychiatry
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Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with higher risk of long-term COVID:
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Obstructive sleep apnea is linked to an increased risk of long-term COVID. According to one study, persons with both sleep disturbance and COVID may benefit from clinical monitoring.
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New study investigates importance of sleep disturbance in dogs with dement
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Dogs with dementia have the same sleep disturbances as individuals with dementia. Researchers from North Carolina State University utilised electroencephalography, or EEGs, on elderly dogs to examine if brain-wave readings during sleep were associated with markers of cognitive deterioration.
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New study investigates significance of sleep disturbance in dogs with deme
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Dogs with dementia experience the same sleep interruptions as people with dementia. North Carolina State University researchers used electroencephalography, or EEGs, on senior dogs to see if brain-wave readings during sleep linked with indicators of cognitive decline. They discovered that do
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Brain inflammation may link Alzheimer's risk, sleep disturbance
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 14 (ANI): Scientists have discovered that brain inflammation may link Alzheimer's disease risk with sleep disturbance, which may aid early detection and prevention efforts by identifying novel treatment targets at preclinical stages.
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The Equilibrium decodes the impact of social media addiction in 2022 and i
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 8 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Checking notifications, scrolling through social media, following the trend, carrying your smartphone everywhere you go, all this has become a norm from the past decade. An increase in smartphone usage and internet accessibility
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Research shows science getting closer to reduce seizures, sleep disturbanc
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Las Vegas [US], February 23 (ANI): A recent study has given a new ray of hope by showing that science is getting one step closer to developing targeted drug therapies that may reduce seizures, sleep disorders, and related symptoms common in people with intellectual disabilities.
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