Dental Health, Sleep and Dementia
(This article is largely an exercise in commonsense and did not need a medical expert to get it written.) This is a link to an article by Eli Wolfe on the California Magazine website, about a study into the relationship between sleep and Alzheimer's Disease conducted by Prof. Bryce Mander (neuroscientist) of U.C. Berkeley and his co-leader, Prof. William Jagust (an expert on Alzheimer’s.) The article also contains (positive) comments by Prof. Douglas Galasko of U.C. San Diego, who was not involved in the study itself. It is well worth a read, both in the limited context of this article and because it also gives ordinary readers of this blog a start on understanding what the mechanism behind Alzheimer's is, which will be helpful once we get onto discussing different, more direct ways in which dental infections etc. may trigger or aggravate dementia. (There are other types of dementia with different mechanisms; vascular dementia for example.) Basically, the study ...