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> experienced some pretty severe sleep deprivation Is this actually thought to cause Alzheimer's? Sleep deprivation leads to temporarily higher levels of a pr
by jessriedel 8y ago
> experienced some pretty severe sleep deprivation
Is this actually thought to cause Alzheimer's? Sleep deprivation leads to temporarily higher levels of a protein known to build up in Alzheimer's patients, but I think this is consistent with an explanation that folks without Alzheimer's clear that protein when they catch up on sleep.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sleep-brain-alzheimers-plaques-protein https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sleep-brain-alzheimers-p...
- thaumaturgy 8y agoLast I read, causation hadn't been established yet, although most of what I've read also suggests that "catching up" isn't a thing you can do for long-term sleep deprivation (one really bad example: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-26630647 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-26630647 ... I don't seem to have bookmarked better citations for that).
- jessriedel 8y ago25% cell death in a cell subpopulation in mice from 3 mights of bad sleep!? That's such an extreme effect from one study in such different animal, it really can't be useful for extrapolation.