Daytime sleepiness signal Alzheimer’s in oldies

Posted on 19 January 2010





Cognitive fluctuations are more likely to occur in older adults who are developing Alzheimer’s disease than in their healthy peers, experts claim.

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis said cognitive fluctuations include excessive daytime sleepiness, staring into space and disorganized or illogical thinking. Until now, little information existed on the potential for links between Alzheimer’s and such lapses. Instead, researchers had associated cognitive fluctuations with another form of dementia called dementia with Lewy bodies.

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