Impaired Recovery Sleep in Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease – The RESTED Study

Jonathan Blackman, Victoria Grace Gabb, Hamish Morrison, Nicholas Turner, Bijetri Biswas, Haoxuan Li, Alan Whone, Elizabeth Coulthard · 2025

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Jonathan Blackman and co-authors test whether recovery sleep is weaker in Alzheimer's disease in the RESTED study, reported in 2025. Sleep pressure builds while awake and is paid back in longer, deeper sleep. Alzheimer's and a related dementia bring many sleep faults. The team tracked forty people for fifty five nights with wrist sensors and diaries.

Short nights were often followed by longer ones, so payback exists. Yet Alzheimer's and older age both linked to shorter sleep overall. The payback link was weaker in the Alzheimer's group. No clear link tied the related dementia to sleep length. The authors say recovery sleep looks impaired in Alzheimer's. That fault may add to the disease burden.

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CREATORJonathan Blackman, Victoria Grace Gabb, Hamish Morrison, Nicholas Turner, Bijetri Biswas, Haoxuan Li, Alan Whone, Elizabeth Coulthard
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE3 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11710332

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