Poor Sleep as a Precursor to Cognitive Decline in Down Syndrome : A Hypothesis

We propose that sleep disruption is a lever arm that influences how cognition emerges in development and then declines in response to Alzheimer disease in people with Down syndrome. Addressing sleep disruptions might be an overlooked way to improve cognitive outcomes in this population. This article...

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Autores principales: Fernandez, Fabian, Edgin, Jamie O
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3928031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24558640
http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2161-0460.1000124
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description We propose that sleep disruption is a lever arm that influences how cognition emerges in development and then declines in response to Alzheimer disease in people with Down syndrome. Addressing sleep disruptions might be an overlooked way to improve cognitive outcomes in this population. This article is a contribution to a Special Issue on Down Syndrome curated by the editors of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease & Parkinsonism.
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spelling pubmed-39280312014-02-18 Poor Sleep as a Precursor to Cognitive Decline in Down Syndrome : A Hypothesis Fernandez, Fabian Edgin, Jamie O J Alzheimers Dis Parkinsonism Article We propose that sleep disruption is a lever arm that influences how cognition emerges in development and then declines in response to Alzheimer disease in people with Down syndrome. Addressing sleep disruptions might be an overlooked way to improve cognitive outcomes in this population. This article is a contribution to a Special Issue on Down Syndrome curated by the editors of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease & Parkinsonism. 2013-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3928031/ /pubmed/24558640 http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2161-0460.1000124 Text en Copyright: © 2013 Fernandez F, et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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