Alzheimer's disease and sleep disturbances: a review

ABSTRACT The association between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and sleep disturbances has received increasing scientific attention in the last decades. However, little is known about the impact of sleep and its disturbances on the development of preclinical AD stages, such as mild cognitive impairme...

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Main Authors: Conrado Regis Borges, Dalva Poyares, Ronaldo Piovezan, Ricardo Nitrini, Sonia Brucki
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Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 2019-12-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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author Conrado Regis Borges
Dalva Poyares
Ronaldo Piovezan
Ricardo Nitrini
Sonia Brucki
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description ABSTRACT The association between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and sleep disturbances has received increasing scientific attention in the last decades. However, little is known about the impact of sleep and its disturbances on the development of preclinical AD stages, such as mild cognitive impairment. This review describes the evolution of knowledge about the potential bidirectional relationships between AD and sleep disturbances exploring recent large prospective studies and meta-analyses and studies of the possible mechanisms through which sleep and the neurodegenerative process could be associated. The review also makes a comprehensive exploration of the sleep characteristics of older people, ranging from cognitively normal individuals, through patients with mild cognitive impairment, up to the those with dementia with AD.
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spelling doaj-art-4ec39c6875ec4612acb51e4fdc8086bb2025-08-20T03:19:24ZengThieme Revinter PublicaçõesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria1678-42272019-12-01771181582410.1590/0004-282x20190149Alzheimer's disease and sleep disturbances: a reviewConrado Regis Borgeshttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3220-7746Dalva Poyareshttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0664-0968Ronaldo Piovezanhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2537-8766Ricardo Nitrinihttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5721-1525Sonia Bruckihttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8303-6732ABSTRACT The association between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and sleep disturbances has received increasing scientific attention in the last decades. However, little is known about the impact of sleep and its disturbances on the development of preclinical AD stages, such as mild cognitive impairment. This review describes the evolution of knowledge about the potential bidirectional relationships between AD and sleep disturbances exploring recent large prospective studies and meta-analyses and studies of the possible mechanisms through which sleep and the neurodegenerative process could be associated. The review also makes a comprehensive exploration of the sleep characteristics of older people, ranging from cognitively normal individuals, through patients with mild cognitive impairment, up to the those with dementia with AD.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2019001100815&tlng=enAlzheimer diseasesleep initiation and maintenance disorderscognitive dysfunction
spellingShingle Conrado Regis Borges
Dalva Poyares
Ronaldo Piovezan
Ricardo Nitrini
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Alzheimer's disease and sleep disturbances: a review
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Alzheimer disease
sleep initiation and maintenance disorders
cognitive dysfunction
title Alzheimer's disease and sleep disturbances: a review
title_full Alzheimer's disease and sleep disturbances: a review
title_fullStr Alzheimer's disease and sleep disturbances: a review
title_full_unstemmed Alzheimer's disease and sleep disturbances: a review
title_short Alzheimer's disease and sleep disturbances: a review
title_sort alzheimer s disease and sleep disturbances a review
topic Alzheimer disease
sleep initiation and maintenance disorders
cognitive dysfunction
url http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2019001100815&tlng=en
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