Stephen Hawking, a British astrophysicist is likely to be the world's most famous person living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. ALS is a progressive disease affecting motor neurons, nerve cells that control muscle function, and nearly always leads to death. Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA) in Vienna have now identified a completely new mechanism in the ...
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Sleep loss might be an early warning of Alzheimer's disease according to a recent research at Washington University School of Medicine. Sleep is affected in patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease. The findings of the latest research suggest that sleep problems could as well be markers for the initiation of the disease. Previous experiments on mice have revealed that a link exists between sleep loss and beta amyloid plaques in the brain, which is ...
