Dreaming of animals and other warning signs of neurodegeneration | Mo Costandi

Sleep disturbances may be an early warning sign of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseasesThe latest issue of Nature contains an Outlook supplement about the health impacts of poor sleep, including a feature I wrote about the link between sleep disturbances and neurodegenerative diseases, called "Amyloid awakenings". The title refers to a process called amyloidosis, by which mutated, abnormally folded proteins aggregate to form insoluble clumps in the brain. Continue reading...
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