ReviewTrends in neurosciences2016
Sleep: A Novel Mechanistic Pathway, Biomarker, and Treatment Target in the Pathology of Alzheimer's Disease?
Review in Trends in neurosciences, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 259 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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259 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 470 citations in OpenAlex.
- Sleep-neuroinflammation interactions in Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review of biomarker pathways.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of exercise on cognitive function in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the mediating role of sleep.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
- Effectiveness of behavioural sleep programs for middle-aged adults on cognition and sleep and associated behaviour change techniques: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Interventions to Improve Sleep in People with Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
- The effectiveness of exercise interventions targeting sleep in older adults with cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD): A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of sleep research · 2024Pooled it
- Risk factors associated with the Motoric Cognitive Risk syndrome: A meta-analysis of data from a cross-national study.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2024Pooled it
- Sleep duration, sleep efficiency, and amyloid β among cognitively healthy later-life adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC geriatrics · 2024Pooled it
- Pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to enhance sleep in mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer's disease: A systematic review.Journal of sleep research · 2021Pooled it
- Enhancing sleep slow waves with auditory stimulation in people with Parkinson's disease: a randomized proof-of-concept trial.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Effects of high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation for the treatment of chronic insomnia: a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Multi-night acoustic stimulation is associated with better sleep, amyloid dynamics, and memory in older adults with cognitive impairment.GeroScience · 2024Trial
- A Randomized-Controlled Trial Targeting Cognition in Early Alzheimer's Disease by Improving Sleep with Trazodone (REST).Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2024Trial
- Acoustic stimulation as a promising technique to enhance slow-wave sleep in Alzheimer's disease: results of a pilot study.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2023Trial
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- Polysomnographic assessment of suvorexant in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease dementia and insomnia: a randomized trial.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2020Trial
- Capturing silent oxidative stress in early Alzheimer's disease: prediction of CSF biomarkers from sleep qEEG data.GeroScience · 2026Article
- Therapeutic effects of 40 Hz light stimulation on clinical and pathological features of Alzheimer's disease.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Sleep Spindles and Slow Oscillations as Potential Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets in Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer's Disease.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2026Review
- One night of closed-loop auditory stimulation during sleep enhances memory consolidation in patients with Alzheimer's Disease.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
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Abstract
Sleep disruption appears to be a core component of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its pathophysiology. Signature abnormalities of sleep emerge before clinical onset of AD. Moreover, insufficient sleep facilitates accumulation of amyloid-β (Aβ), potentially triggering earlier cognitive decline and conversion to AD. Building on such findings, this review has four goals: evaluating (i) associations and plausible mechanisms linking non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep disruption, Aβ, and AD; (ii) a role for NREM sleep disruption as a novel factor linking cortical Aβ to impaired hippocampus-dependent memory consolidation; (iii) the potential diagnostic utility of NREM sleep disruption as a new biomarker of AD; and (iv) the possibility of sleep as a new treatment target in aging, affording preventative and therapeutic benefits.
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