Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by
synaptic dysfunction and accumulation of abnormal aggregates formed by amyloid‐β …

Sleep is a biological enigma that has raised numerous questions about the inner workings
of the brain. The fundamental question of why our nervous systems have evolved to require …

OBJECTIVE: To describe which dietary nutrient variables are related to subjective and
objective habitual sleep and subjective and objective napping. METHODS: Participants …

As the aging population grows, the need to understand age‐related changes in health is
vital. Two prominent behavioral changes that occur with age are disrupted sleep and …

Recent transcript profiling and microarray studies are beginning to unveil some of the
mysteries of sleep. One of the most important clues has been the identification of the …

The two‐process model of sleep regulation posits two main processes regulating sleep: the
circadian process controlled by the circadian clock and the homeostatic process that …

Sleep is important for neural plasticity, and plasticity underlies sleep-dependent memory
consolidation. It is widely appreciated that protein synthesis plays an essential role in neural …

Alterations in the quality, quantity, and architecture of baseline and recovery sleep have
been shown to occur during aging. Sleep deprivation induces endoplasmic reticular (ER) …

The reversible phosphorylation of the α subunit of eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF2α) is a
highly conserved signal implicated in the cellular adaptation to numerous stresses such as …

Many fundamental questions about sleep remain unanswered. The presence of sleep
across phyla suggests that it must serve a basic cellular and/or molecular function …