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KY scientists learned what causes sleep loss in Alzheimer’s patients — and how to stop it 

Sarah Ladd
Posted 7/27/26

University of Kentucky scientists have discovered the cause of sleep loss in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and how to help restore hours of rest.  They originally set out to see how sleep loss worsened over the course of the disease, believing Alzheimer’s patients lost sleep because their neurons were dying or because of amyloid plaques, […]

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