Sleep, cognition, and normal aging: integrating a half century of multidisciplinary research

MK Scullin, DL Bliwise - Perspectives on Psychological …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Sleep is implicated in cognitive functioning in young adults. With increasing age, there are
substantial changes to sleep quantity and quality, including changes to slow-wave sleep …

Sleep and sleep disorders in older adults

K Crowley - Neuropsychology review, 2011 - Springer
A common but significant change associated with aging is a profound disruption to the daily
sleep-wake cycle. It has been estimated that as many as 50% of older adults complain about …

[HTML][HTML] Associations between objectively measured sleep parameters and cognition in healthy older adults: a meta-analysis

S Qin, RLF Leong, JL Ong, MWL Chee - Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Multiple studies have examined associations between sleep and cognition in older adults,
but a majority of these depend on self-reports on sleep and utilize cognitive tests that assess …

[HTML][HTML] Obstructive sleep apnea and its treatment in aging: effects on Alzheimer's disease biomarkers, cognition, brain structure and neurophysiology

AE Mullins, K Kam, A Parekh, OM Bubu, RS Osorio… - Neurobiology of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Here we review the impact of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) on biomarkers of Alzheimer's
disease (AD) pathogenesis, neuroanatomy, cognition and neurophysiology, and present the …

Circadian rhythms in cognitive performance: methodological constraints, protocols, theoretical underpinnings

K Blatter, C Cajochen - Physiology & behavior, 2007 - Elsevier
The investigation of time-of-day effects on cognitive performance began in the early days of
psychophysiological performance assessments. Since then, standardised, highly controlled …

NREM sleep as a novel protective cognitive reserve factor in the face of Alzheimer's disease pathology

Z Zavecz, VD Shah, OG Murillo, R Vallat, BA Mander… - BMC medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology impairs cognitive function. Yet some
individuals with high amounts of AD pathology suffer marked memory impairment, while …

Age-related changes in the cognitive function of sleep

EF Pace-Schott, RMC Spencer - Progress in brain research, 2011 - Elsevier
Healthy aging is characterized by a diminished quality of sleep with decreased sleep
duration and increased time awake after sleep onset. Older adults awaken more frequently …

Role of sleep continuity and total sleep time in executive function across the adult lifespan.

KA Wilckens, SG Woo, AR Kirk, KI Erickson… - Psychology and …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
The importance of sleep for cognition in young adults is well established, but the role of
habitual sleep behavior in cognition across the adult life span remains unknown. We …

Prediction of general mental ability based on neural oscillation measures of sleep

R Bódizs, T Kis, AS Lázár, L Havrán… - Journal of sleep …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The usual assessment of general mental ability (or intelligence) is based on performance
attained in reasoning and problem‐solving tasks. Differences in general mental ability have …

Slow-wave activity enhancement to improve cognition

KA Wilckens, F Ferrarelli, MP Walker, DJ Buysse - Trends in neurosciences, 2018 - cell.com
Slow-wave activity (SWA), and its coupling with other sleep features, reorganizes cortical
circuitry, supporting cognition. This raises the question: can cognition be improved through …