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Comment
. 2021 Oct 22;144(9):2568-2570.
doi: 10.1093/brain/awab315.

Sleep and future cognitive decline

Elizabeth Coulthard  1 , Jonathan Blackman  1
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Comment

Sleep and future cognitive decline

Elizabeth Coulthard et al. Brain. .

Abstract

This scientific commentary refers to ‘Sleep and longitudinal cognitive performance in preclinical and early symptomatic Alzheimer disease’ by Lucey et al. (doi:10.1093/brain/awab272).

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Approach to tailoring sleep therapies in people at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Theoretical characterization of sleep for an individual at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. This individual has adequate total sleep time, REM duration and slow-wave activity (SWA) activity but insufficient sleep efficiency, NREM duration and spindle/slow oscillation (SO) synchrony. A potential tailored treatment programme is indicated by the red arrows.
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