Research by UCLA's Gene Block, Christopher Colwell provides new insights into sleep difficulties among older people
By Stuart Wolpert July 18, 2011
Gene Block with co-authors Tamara Cutler and Takashi Kudo
"One of the main clinical complaints of patients with Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease is they cannot sleep and do not respond well to sleeping pills. We think the same dysfunction we see with normal aging occurs much earlier and more severely with these patients, and we hope that the treatment strategies we develop for aging can be applied to help patients with neurodegenerative diseases as well. If we learn what is going wrong, then we may be able to develop treatments."
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