What makes patients with Alzheimer's sleepy? Loss of neurons, investigators say - McKnight's Long Term Care News

The lethargy that many Alzheimer's patients experience is caused not by a lack of sleep but rather by the degeneration of a type of neuron that keeps us awake, according to a study that also confirms the tau protein is behind that neurodegeneration.

The lethargy that many Alzheimer’s patients experience is caused not by a lack of sleep but rather by the degeneration of a type of neuron that keeps us awake, according to a study that also confirms… [+1339 chars]

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