The brain may clean out Alzheimer’s plaques斑 during sleep If sleep deprivation 剝奪puts garbage removal on the fritz,故障 the memory-robbing disease may develop BY LAURA BEIL 6:00AM, JULY 15, 2018 SHARE ARTICLE ? THE CLEAN CYCLE Lack of sleep may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease by robbing the brain of the time it needs to wash away sticky proteins. MICHAEL MORGENSTERN Magazine issue: Vol. 194, No. 2, July 21, 2018, p. 22 SPONSOR MESSAGE ? Neuroscientist Barbara Bendlin studies the brain as Alzheimer’s disease develops. When she goes home, she tries to leave her work in the lab. But one recent research project has crossed into her personal life: She now takes sleep much more seriously.現(xiàn)在她對(duì)睡眠的態(tài)度更加認(rèn)真了。 Bendlin works at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, home to the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention,本德林就職于威斯康辛大學(xué)麥迪遜分校,這里是威斯康辛老年癡呆癥預(yù)防登記處的所在地, a study of more than 1,500 people who were ages 40 to 65
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