Combating Alzheimer's Through Sleep and Exercise

Combating Alzheimer's Through Sleep and Exercise (CASE)

Alzheimer's/dementia is an increasingly critical public health risk, with over 50 million Americans at risk for the disease. To stem the burden of Alzheimer's disease, prophylactic and protective strategies such as physical activity and sleep have been recommended to reduce the risk of cognitive decline and Alzheimer's/dementia. Previous research indicate that exercise improves cognition and lowers dementia risk and may be a promising intervention to address dementia risk in the general population. Sleep, specifically slow wave sleep, may reduce dementia risk, based on previous work showing that greater levels of slow wave sleep was related to higher cognition. However, little is known about the independent and combined effects exercise and sleep have on cognition. The proposed study therefore aims to investigate the independent and combined effects exercise (aerobic and stretching) and sleep have on cognition and what heart health, sleep and stress correlates confound this association.

Combating Alzheimer's Through Sleep and Exercise

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