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How sleep and dementia may be linked

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A new article digs into how sleep, the brain’s process for clearing waste, and dementia may be linked.
Why are conditions such as chronic stress, depression, cardiovascular disease, fragmented sleep, and aging all associated with a higher risk of dementia?
In a new review piece in Science, University of Rochester Medicine neuroscientist Maiken Nedergaard proposes that many of these seemingly different conditions may converge on the same biological problem: disruption of a sleep-dependent b

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