Deep sleep and parietal cortex gene expression changes are related to cognitive deficits with age.

Age-related cognitive deficits negatively affect quality of life and can presage serious neurodegenerative disorders. Despite sleep disruption's well-recognized negative influence on cognition, and its prevalence with age, surprisingly few studies have tested sleep's relationship to cognit...

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Main Authors: Heather M Buechel, Jelena Popovic, James L Searcy, Nada M Porter, Olivier Thibault, Eric M Blalock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3070733?pdf=render