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People with insomnia and other sleep disorders, tend to haveweaker memory skills and have the same memory disorders such as elderly people.Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine found the quality and quantity of sleep at night can affect the brain's performance.
Conclusion is obtained when the researchers conducted research on 100 men aged 45-80. For two weeks, the respondents wereexamined and the quality of sleep patterns with a special tool. They were also asked to fill out a questionnaire to the journal activity andthen analyzed by the research team.
Research shows that sleep quality did not affect the formation ofamyloid plaques in the brain. Amyloid plaques is an early symptomof Alzheimer's brain associated with memory. As noted Daily Mail, as much as 25% of respondents in this studywere found to have amyloid plaques and they are the people whosuffer from sleep disorders. Humans need eight hours of sleep each night, but on average only6.5 hours of sleep because sometimes they wake up in the middle of the night.
The research found those who trouble sleeping or wake up in themiddle of the night five times more prone to the formation of amyloidplaques.Amyloid plaque growth occurred several years before finallyadjudged to have Alzheimer's sufferers.During the process of amyloid plaque formation up to the stages of Alzheimer's symptoms, people experience memory loss and brainquality.
