Resumen de Sleep the good sleep
Walker discusses on how people can protect themselves from Alzheimer's disease by having enough sleep. As a sleep scientist, he became interested in this connection some years ago, where he found out not only does sleep disruption play a role in the declining mental abilities that typify Alzheimer's disease, but getting enough sleep is one of the most important factors determining whether people will develop the condition in the future. Assessing a patient with Alzheimer's disease, the disruption of deep sleep is exaggerated, where Alzheimer's disease is associated with the build-up of a toxic form of protein called beta-amyloid, which aggregates in sticky clumps, or plaques, within the brain. Moreover, he set about testing whether the reason of Alzheimer's patients have such impaired deep NREM sleep, which conducted at her sleep centre at the University of California, Berkeley. And arrived at the answer that the more amyloid deposits there are in the middle regions of the frontal lobe, the more impaired that person's deep-sleep quality.
