Sleep is our #BFF and also the very best and a most inexpensive dose of medicine. A naturally recurring state of body and mind.
It is characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, reduced muscle activity and inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles during rapid eye movement #REM sleep, and reduced interactions with surroundings.
This is distinguished from wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli, but more reactive than a coma. Now scientists say that changes in sleep patterns are common in persons with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
People who sleep for less than 6 hours a night in their 50s and 60s appear more likely to develop dementia than their peers who get at least 7 hours of shut-eye a night, according to a new study. https://wb.md/3ayhrmu
World News Tonight @ABCWorldNews Sleeping less than six hours a night can raise the risk of dementia by 30 percent, a new study finds. abcn.ws/3dNasZ3
The loss of cognitive functioning, like thinking, remembering, and reasoning, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.