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Sleep helps us get rid of neurotoxic waste and reduces the risk of Alzheimers

10/18/2013

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US scientists found out that our brain gets rid of neurotoxic waste during periods of rest (in particular sleep). Their findings were just published in the prestigious Science Journal.
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"Despite decades of effort, one of the greatest mysteries in biology is why sleep is restorative and, conversely, why lack of sleep impairs brain function (1, 2). Sleep deprivation reduces learning, impairs performance in cognitive tests, prolongs reaction time, and is a common cause of seizures (3, 4). In the most extreme case, continuous sleep deprivation kills rodents and flies within a period of days to weeks (5, 6). In humans, fatal familial or sporadic insomnia is a progressively worsening state of sleeplessness that leads to dementia and death within months or years (7)."


Read the full article here!
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The Power of Music

10/13/2013

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Watch this amazing story to see how music can help patients spend some happy moments WITH memory - memories of their past...
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