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Deep Sleep may Mitigate Alzheimer’s Memory Loss

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Research published Wednesday from University of California, Berkeley, sleep scientists suggests that deep sleep might help alleviate some of dementia’s most devastating outcomes. (Graphic by Neil Freese. Unsplash images courtesy Peyman Farmani, Nigel Tadyanehondo, Zoe Gayah Jonker and Yan Berthemy)

Deep sleep, also known as non-REM slow-wave sleep, can act as a ‘cognitive reserve factor’ that may increase resilience against brain protein beta-amyloid that is linked to memory loss caused by dementia.

Disrupted sleep has previously been associated with faster accumulation of beta-amyloid protein in the brain...

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