A preliminary study has found that when young, healthy men were deprived of just one night of sleep, they had higher levels of tau — a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease — in their blood than when they had a full, uninterrupted night of rest.
Losing a night of sleep may increase blood levels of Alzheimer’s biomarker
A preliminary study has found that when young, healthy men were deprived of just one night of sleep, they had higher levels of tau — a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease — in their blood than when they had a full, uninterrupted night of rest.