Sleep and Cognition in the Long Life Family Study
Emma Gordon, Yian Gu, Stephanie Cosentino, Stacy L. Andersen, Svetlana Ukraintseva · 2025
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Description
Emma Gordon and four co-authors published a study in 2025 on sleep and thinking in families known for long life. These families decline more slowly than most, so their habits may hold clues to healthy aging. The team asked how sleep length relates to memory in this group, at one point in time and years later.
More than twenty-three hundred members aged sixty and older took thinking tests, with a large subset retested about seven years later. People sleeping more than eight and a half hours scored lower on story memory at the start. Long sleepers also declined faster across memory measures. In long-lived families, very long sleep looks like a warning sign rather than a strength.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Emma Gordon, Yian Gu, Stephanie Cosentino, Stacy L. Andersen, Svetlana Ukraintseva |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |