SLEEP: A GEROSCIENCE TARGET
Judith Carroll · 2024
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Description
Judith Carroll, writing alone in 2024, argues that sleep should be treated as a target in the science of aging. She notes that healthy sleep supports mental and physical health, while poor sleep tracks with higher risk of age-related disease. Many older adults sleep less than they once did, yet the molecular links between sleep and aging stay murky.
Her group's work ties insomnia to markers of aging, including shorter telomeres and a pro-inflammatory signal. Restricting sleep in older adults switched on genes for DNA damage response. Treating insomnia, in turn, slowed a pace-of-aging measure. The talk frames sleep as repair time the body needs.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Judith Carroll |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |