Research sheds light on body clock and links to mental health and disease
Jan 30, 2019, at 05:59 pm
New York, Jan 30 (IBNS): A large-scale genomic analysis has revealed some of the inner workings of the body clock, shedding new light on how it links to mental health and disease.
Body clock disruptions occur years before memory loss in Alzheimer’s
Jan 30, 2018, at 02:54 pm
New York, Jan 30 (IBNS): People with Alzheimer’s disease are known to have disturbances in their internal body clocks that affect the sleep/wake cycle and may increase risk of developing the disorder. Now, new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates that such circadian rhythm disruptions also occur much earlier in people whose memories are intact but whose brain scans show early, preclinical evidence of Alzheimer’s.