Examination of Sex‐dependent sleep disruptions and OSA severity on Limbic System Integrity in Community‐Dwelling Cognitively Unimpaired Older Adults

Joshua L Gills, Oliver Cesar, Zanetta Kovbasyuk, Anhiti Dharmapuri, Julian McBride, Alfred Mbah, Elena Valkanova, Luisa F Figueredo, Ankit Parekh, Girardin A Jean‐Louis, Andrew Varga, Ricardo S Osorio, Omonigho M Bubu · 2025

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A team led by Joshua Gills published this study in two thousand twenty-five on sleep problems, sex, and brain wiring in older adults. The limbic system, a set of brain paths tied to memory and emotion, shows wear early in Alzheimer's disease, and poor sleep has been linked to the disease.

The team studied one hundred seventy healthy older adults in New York sleep studies. Each person had a full sleep-lab night and a brain scan that maps white matter paths. In women, broken sleep and worse sleep apnea went with weaker wiring in key limbic paths. Less deep dream sleep also tracked weaker wiring in women. The paper's head cuts off before the men's results, but the main thrust is clear. Sleep harm and brain wiring are linked, and the link may not be the same for both sexes.

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CREATORJoshua L Gills, Oliver Cesar, Zanetta Kovbasyuk, Anhiti Dharmapuri, Julian McBride, Alfred Mbah, Elena Valkanova, Luisa F Figueredo, Ankit Parekh, Girardin A Jean‐Louis, Andrew Varga, Ricardo S Osorio, Omonigho M Bubu
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE3 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11716571

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