Research Shows Night Shifts Throw Brain Out of Sync
Research Shows Night Shifts Throw Brain Out of Sync The Guardian reports that researchers have found working night shifts can impair the body’s natural rhythms so significantly that the brain and digestive system end up completely out of sync with each other....New Study Links Circadian Rhythms and Alzheimer’s
New Study Links Circadian Rhythms and Alzheimer’s A Finnish study published in the respected SLEEP journal shows that a variation in the melatonin receptor 1A (MTNR1A) gene is linked to the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in the elderly. The same research team...Research Update on Links Between Parkinson’s and Circadian Rhythm Disruption
Research Update on Links Between Parkinson’s and Circadian Rhythm Disruption Mutations in two specific genes affect how nerve cells work in the brain, disrupting sleep patterns in Parkinson’s patients, a new study suggests, and recommends a way of possibly...Circadian Rhythms Influence Atherosclerosis
Circadian Rhythms Influence Atherosclerosis Professor Oliver Söhnlein, who researched molecular mechanisms underlying atherosclerosis at the Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention, has shown the influence of circadian rhythms on atherosclerosis; a vascular disease...