Key insight: The glymphatic system flushes amyloid plaques primarily during deep NREM sleep. Disruptions to sleep architecture — whether caused by ageing, inflammation, or vascular stiffness — reduce ...

Boosting the brain's waste-disposal system is increasingly showing promise for Alzheimer's disease, with a study now ...

A duo of drugs that boosts our glymphatic system, which clears waste from our brain, also improves the removal of proteins ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amyloid-beta plaques in the brain For decades, scientists have targeted the sticky protein clumps that amass in Alzheimer's brains ...

Research suggests that poor sleep may increase the risk of dementia. Image Credit: Design by MNT; Photography by Kate Wieser/Getty Images & Elif Bayraktar/Getty Images Sleep is an important part of ...

A landmark randomized crossover study in humans by researchers at Applied Cognition links sleep-related glymphatic activity to blood biomarker shifts for amyloid beta and tau. The researchers say the ...

A new study links tau pathology to disrupted sleep in Alzheimer's disease. Sleep expert Dr. Wendy Troxel discusses how ...

Problems with the brain’s waste clearance system could underlie many cases of dementia and help explain why poor sleep patterns and cardiovascular risk factors such as high blood pressure increase the ...

A group from Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan, led by graduate student Tatsushi Oura and Dr. Hiroyuki Tatekawa, found that treatment using the drug lecanemab to remove amyloid plaques in the ...

New research links long sitting, poor sleep, and inactivity to higher dementia risk, while simple habits like walking and ...

Cells feature an array of biological cascades to respond to stressors such as protein aggregates, viruses, and DNA damage. When these pathways are activated too much or for too long, things can go ...