Title:
For better health, don't sleep your age: Older people with ‘young’ sleep patterns have more robust cognition than those whose rest is typical for their age
Published:
Nature, 17 November 2020
From the article:
Shaun Purcell at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues tracked the sleep of 3,819 people between 54 and 96 years old by recording their brain waves through electroencephalogram sensors that the participants wore throughout the night. The researchers then scored each person’s sleep for more than 150 sleep characteristics and brain-activity patterns. These included factors such as sleep disturbance, the length of the sleep cycles in which dreams occur and preference for mornings or evenings.
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