ReviewJournal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996)2017
The missing link between sleep disorders and age-related dementia: recent evidence and plausible mechanisms.
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- Assessment of bidirectional relationships between sleep traits and frailty: A bidirectional Mendelian randomization study.Medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Characteristics of Sleep Structure Assessed by Objective Measurements in Patients With Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Pooled it
- Associations between sleep disturbance and cerebrospinal fluid Aβ, and shared proteomic signatures in Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Sleep deprivation impairs cognitive performance, alters task-associated cerebral blood flow and decreases cortical neurovascular coupling-related hemodynamic responses.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- New therapeutics beyond amyloid-β and tau for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.Acta pharmacologica Sinica · 2021Review
- Non-benzodiazepine hypnotic use for sleep disturbance in people aged over 55 years living with dementia: a series of cohort studies.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2021Article
- Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder and Neurodegenerative Diseases: An Update.Aging and disease · 2020Review
- Advancing Research on Care Needs and Supportive Approaches for Persons With Dementia: Recommendations and Rationale.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2018Article
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Abstract
Sleep disorders are among the most common clinical problems and possess a significant concern for the geriatric population. More importantly, while around 40% of elderly adults have sleep-related complaints, sleep disorders are more frequently associated with co-morbidities including age-related neurodegenerative diseases and mild cognitive impairment. Recently, increasing evidence has indicated that disturbed sleep may not only serve as the consequence of brain atrophy, but also contribute to the pathogenesis of dementia and, therefore, significantly increase dementia risk. Since the current therapeutic interventions lack efficacies to prevent, delay or reverse the pathological progress of dementia, a better understanding of underlying mechanisms by which sleep disorders interact with the pathogenesis of dementia will provide possible targets for the prevention and treatment of dementia. In this review, we briefly describe the physiological roles of sleep in learning/memory, and specifically update the recent research evidence demonstrating the association between sleep disorders and dementia. Plausible mechanisms are further discussed. Moreover, we also evaluate the possibility of sleep therapy as a potential intervention for dementia.
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