Sleep disorders and Alzheimer’s disease

Of course, everyone knows about this neurodegenerative disease, in which the following occur sequentially: loss of short-term memory, and after progression — disturbances in the formation of long-term memory, then difficulties arise in thinking and speech production, which are the subsequent causes of difficulties that arise, up to the impossibility of orientation in the surrounding reality and in maintaining self-care skills. How is poor sleep related to this disease? Directly. Patients with this disease always have problems sleeping. The only thing is that scientists still have not figured out what is the effect and what is the cause. Accumulating data from various patient histories around the world provides a picture in which it becomes clear that sleep difficulties and the disease itself are most likely mutually determined: when neurons die, then the structure of sleep is disrupted, and if sleep processes are disrupted, then this leads to the emergence and the progress of neurodegenerative processes in nervous tissue — in the case of Alzheimer’s disease, such a process is the appearance and subsequent accumulation of amyloid plaques in the bodies of neurons. A little about amyloid plaques… These are very toxic proteins that, accumulating in the body of a nerve cell, form very dense formations inside the neuron, gradually compressing the cell organelles, interfering with their functioning, as a result of which the neuron dies. <a href="https://medium.com/@jamesharris089/sleep-disorders-and-alzheimers-disease-99c244fe922d">Visit Now</a>