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  1. Progressive neurodegeneration of the locus coeruleus drives rapid eye movement sleep fragmentation 2026-10-16
  2. REM sleep EEG slowing signals basal forebrain integrity in older adults with subjective and mild cognitive impairment 2026-10-02
  3. A systems-level model of sleep-dependent memory-consolidation failure in neurodegeneration: the spindle–slow-oscillation decoupling cascade dissociates amyloid and tau 2026-09-29

Studies

196 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1983 to 2026

Top journals

  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 12
  • bioRxiv 7
  • medRxiv 7
  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 6
  • Sleep 5

128 journals in all.

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  1. Sleep and Women's Mental Health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Psychiatric clinics of North America 2023-05-27 Risk factors

    Women have increased risks for both sleep disturbances and disorders and for mental health issues throughout their lives, starting in adolescence.

  2. Neurofilament light chain and cardiac MIBG uptake as predictors for phenoconversion in isolated REM sleep behavior disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2023-05-26 Biomarkers

    Patients were followed for a median of 2.92 years.

  3. Sleep and circadian rhythms in α-synucleinopathies-Perspectives for disease modification

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Acta physiologica (Oxford, England) 2023-04-07 Risk factors

    The global north is facing an unprecedented rise in the prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases.

  4. Circadian Rhythms and Astrocytes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Annual review of neuroscience 2023-03-28 Risk factors

    This review explores the interface between circadian timekeeping and the regulation of brain function by astrocytes.

  5. Sleep-Related Changes Prior to Cognitive Dysfunction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2023-03-07 Risk factors

    The aim of this review is to summarize the current evidence on the relationship between sleep and cognition and present available data reporting the impact that sleep alterations may have on cognitive functions.

  6. Circadian disruption and sleep disorders in neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Translational neurodegeneration 2023-02-13 Risk factors

    Disruptions of circadian rhythms and sleep cycles are common among neurodegenerative diseases and can occur at multiple levels.

  7. Sleep quality and sleep duration predict brain microstructure among community-dwelling older adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2023-02-10 Risk factors

    Although poor sleep quality and extreme sleep durations have been associated with brain atrophy and dementia, it is unclear whether sleep disturbances contribute to neural injury in the absence of neurodegeneration and cognitive impairment.

  8. Acute sleep loss decreases CSF-to-blood clearance of Alzheimer's disease biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2023-01-25 Biomarkers

    These findings show that sleep loss alters some plasma AD biomarkers by lowering brain clearance mechanisms and needs to be taken into account when interpreting individual plasma AD biomarkers but not ratios.

  9. Insomnia Symptoms and Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease in the Community

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2023 Risk factors

    Higher ISI score was associated with greater average levels of CSF Aβ42 (per point: 30.7 pg/mL, 95% CI: 4.17-57.3, p = 0.023), as was higher WASO (per 10 min: 136 pg/mL, 95% CI: 48-223, p = 0.002) and more awakenings (per 5:123 pg/mL, 95% CI = 55-192, p < 0.001).

  10. Longitudinal associations between sleep duration and cognitive impairment in Chinese elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-11-17 Risk factors

    The empirical study showed a U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and increased risk of cognitive impairment.

  11. Circadian dysfunction and Alzheimer's disease - An updated review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Aging medicine (Milton (N.S.W)) 2022-08-15 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is considered to be the most typical form of dementia that provokes irreversible cognitive impairment.

  12. Trajectories of sleep duration and timing before dementia: a 14-year follow-up study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Age and ageing 2022-08-02 Risk factors

    long baseline nighttime and 24-h sleep durations (≥9 h) as well as being persistent or becoming long sleepers during follow-up were associated with dementia incidence.

  13. Associations Between Sleep Duration and Sensory Impairments Among Older Adults in China

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022-06-07 Risk factors

    Of the 17,668 respondents, 8,396 (47.5%) were men.

  14. Sleep, Pain, and Neurodegeneration: A Mendelian Randomization Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Frontiers in neurology 2022-05-02 Risk factors

    Our aim was to determine whether the genetic liability to sleep and pain-related traits have a causal effect on risk of neurodegeneration in individuals of predominantly European ancestry.

  15. The brain structure and genetic mechanisms underlying the nonlinear association between sleep duration, cognition and mental health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Nature aging 2022-04-28 Genetics

    Sleep duration, psychiatric disorders and dementias are closely interconnected in older adults.

  16. Neurodegenerative Disorders and Sleep

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Sleep medicine clinics 2022-04-22 Risk factors

    Patients suffering from neurodegenerative conditions frequently report sleep complaints, such as insomnia and excessive daytime sleepiness.

  17. Sleep in Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of polysomnographic findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Translational psychiatry 2022-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Polysomnography (PSG) studies of sleep changes in Alzheimer's disease (AD) have reported but not fully established the relationship between sleep disturbances and AD.

  18. Association between the self-reported duration and quality of sleep and cognitive function among middle-aged and older adults in China

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Journal of affective disorders 2022-02-14 Risk factors

    Sleep duration had an inverted U-shape relationship with cognitive scores (P <.001); and sleep quality had a positive linear relationship with cognitive scores (P <.001).

  19. A Brewed Awakening: Neuropsychiatric Effects of Caffeine in Older Adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Clinics in geriatric medicine 2022-02 Risk factors

    This article provides a current review of the literature examining caffeine use in older adults.

  20. Short sleep duration and dementia: a narrative review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) 2022-01-31 Risk factors

    Short sleep duration has been linked to the development of neurocognitive disorders.

  21. Hypocretins (orexins): The ultimate translational neuropeptides

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of internal medicine 2022-01-19 Risk factors

    The hypocretins (Hcrts), also known as orexins, are two neuropeptides produced exclusively in the lateral hypothalamus.

  22. An Overview on Sleep Medicine

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2022 Risk factors

    Sleep plays an important role in homeostasis, brain plasticity, clearance of neurotoxins, cognition, memory, concentration, performance, and the regulation of the temperature, endocrine and immunological systems.

  23. Sleep Disturbances, Cognitive Status, and Biomarkers of Dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Risk factors

    Prevalence of insomnia was 14%, 16%, and 11% for normal, MCI, and dementia groups.

  24. Sleep apnoea and cognitive impairment: myth or reality?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Geriatrie et psychologie neuropsychiatrie du vieillissement 2021-12-16 Risk factors

    A growing number of studies in animal models have highlighted the link between sleep disorders and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  25. Genome-wide association study of idiopathic hypersomnia in a Japanese population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 79 out of 100. Sleep and biological rhythms 2021-10-12 Genetics

    Narcolepsy type 1 is strongly associated with human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DQB1*06:02; however, no significant associations between IH and HLA alleles have been reported.

  26. Sharper in the morning: Cognitive time of day effects revealed with high-frequency smartphone testing

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology 2021-10-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    Decades of research has established a shift from an "eveningness" preference to a "morningness" preference with increasing age.

  27. Sleep disorders in Alzheimer's disease: the predictive roles and potential mechanisms

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neural regeneration research 2021-10 Risk factors

    Sleep disorders are common in patients with Alzheimer's disease, and can even occur in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment, which appears before Alzheimer's disease.

  28. Understanding insomnia as systemic disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Yeungnam University journal of medicine 2021-09-13 Risk factors

    Sleep plays a critical role in homeostasis of the body and mind.

  29. Longitudinal association of apolipoprotein E and sleep with incident dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021-09-03 Risk factors

    During a median of 10.8 years follow-up, sleeping more or fewer than 7 hours was associated with a higher dementia risk (hazard ratio [HR] for 5 vs 7 hours: 1.35, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.11-1.64; HR for 9 vs 7 hours: 1.59; 95% CI 1.37-1.85) as was daytime napping (HR for often/all of the time vs never/rarely: 1.67; 95% CI 1.37-2.03).

  30. Treatment of insomnia - effect of trazodone and hypnotics on sleep

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Psychiatria polska 2021-08-31 Risk factors

    Sedative antidepressants are commonly used drugs in the treatment of insomnia.

  31. Sleep, Aging, and Daily Functioning

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Nursing clinics of North America 2021-06 Risk factors

    Older adults who do not sleep well frequently have difficulty sustaining attention, display slower physical response times, and have memory issues that may contribute to depression or early dementia.

  32. Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Cognitive Decline: A Review of Potential Vulnerability and Protective Factors

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain sciences 2021-05-27 Risk factors

    Around 40% of dementia risk is attributable to modifiable risk factors such as physical inactivity, hypertension, diabetes and obesity.

  33. Sleep Disorders and Cognitive Dysfunctions in Parkinson's Disease: A Meta-Analytic Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. Neuropsychology review 2021-03-29 Risk factors

    A relationship between sleep disorders and cognitive dysfunctions was reported in Parkinson's Disease (PD), however, some studies did not confirm the link.

  34. Insomnia in neurological diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Neurological research and practice 2021-03-10 Risk factors

    Insomnia is defined as difficulties of initiating and maintaining sleep, early awakening and poor subjective sleep quality despite adequate opportunity and circumstances for sleep with impairment of daytime performance.

  35. Melatonin levels in the Alzheimer's disease continuum: a systematic review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 71 out of 100. Alzheimer's research & therapy 2021-02-23 Biomarkers

    Our systematic review shows evidence for disruptions in (night-time) melatonin levels in AD as compared to age-matched controls.

  36. Sleep in the Aging Brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain sciences 2021-02-12 Risk factors

    We have entered an era of a steep increase in the absolute and relative number of older people.

  37. Circadian and Sleep Dysfunctions in Neurodegenerative Disorders-An Update

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Frontiers in neuroscience 2021-01-18 Risk factors

    Disruptions of sleep and circadian rhythms are among the most debilitating symptoms in patients with neurodegenerative diseases.

  38. Sleep Characteristics and Cognitive Function in Older Adults Without Dementia: The CABLE Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021 Tau biomarkers

    The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) total score was significantly negatively correlated with Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score (p = 0.0176).

  39. Unique Sleep and Circadian Rhythm Dysfunction Neuroinflammatory and Immune Profiles in Alzheimer's Disease with Mild Cognitive Impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2021 Risk factors

    Sleep dysfunction has been identified in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, the role and mechanism of circadian rhythm dysfunction is less well understood.

  40. The sleep and circadian problems of Huntington's disease: when, why and their importance

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Journal of neurology 2020-12-23 Risk factors

    This cycle is challenging to study, as its bidirectional nature renders cause difficult to disentangle from effect.

  41. The Sleeping Brain: Harnessing the Power of the Glymphatic System through Lifestyle Choices

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Brain sciences 2020-11-17 Prevention trials

    The glymphatic system is a "pseudo-lymphatic" perivascular network distributed throughout the brain, responsible for replenishing as well as cleansing the brain.

  42. Alcohol consumption and sleep quality: a community-based study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 61 out of 100. Public health nutrition 2020-11-13 Risk factors

    We observed a dose-response association between higher alcohol consumption in 2006 and worse sleep quality in 2012 (Ptrend < 0·001), after adjusting for age, sex, socio-economic status, smoking status, physical activity, obesity, plasma lipid profiles, diabetes and hypertension.

  43. New pharmacologic agents for insomnia and hypersomnia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current opinion in pulmonary medicine 2020-11 Risk factors

    Insomnia and hypersomnia are conditions with multifactorial causes that can be difficult to treat.

  44. Sleep characteristics and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease pathology in cognitively intact older adults: The CABLE study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-07-13 Tau biomarkers

    Greater daytime sleepiness was associated with higher CSF indicators of amyloid deposition in female patients.

  45. Alzheimer's Disease in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Tanaffos 2020-07 Risk factors

    Serious OSAS and short sleep duration are associated with a high risk of developing dementia.

  46. Identifying and Treating Insomnia in Patients Living With Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. The Journal of clinical psychiatry 2020-04-21 Risk factors

    The number of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is increasing significantly.

  47. Is Sleep Disruption a Cause or Consequence of Alzheimer's Disease? Reviewing Its Possible Role as a Biomarker

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. International journal of molecular sciences 2020-02-10 Tau biomarkers

    In recent years, the idea that sleep is critical for cognitive processing has gained strength.

  48. Therapy for Insomnia and Circadian Rhythm Disorder in Alzheimer Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Current treatment options in neurology 2020-02-05 Risk factors

    RECENT FINDINGS: Some studies investigated the efficacy and safety of hypnotic agents as ramelteon and mirtazapine to treat sleep disorders in AD but no significant therapeutic effects have been observed.

  49. Polysomnographic assessment of suvorexant in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease dementia and insomnia: a randomized trial

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 84 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2020-01-15 Risk factors

    Of 285 participants randomized (suvorexant, N = 142; placebo, N = 143), 277 (97%) completed the trial (suvorexant, N = 136; placebo, N = 141).

  50. Epigenetic Regulation of BMAL1 with Sleep Disturbances and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Risk factors

    Methylation across all the CpGs strongly correlated with each other.

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