5 clinical trials found.
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A Single-Center Observational Longitudinal Study on the Effect of Slow Wave Sleep (SWS) Characteristics and Race and Ethnicity on Amyloid Burden (A Marker of Alzheimer s Disease Risk) among cognitively normal elderly
Sleep AWARE is a research study funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Institutes for Aging. We will examine how race, genes ...
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Sleep Aging and Risk for Alzheimer's
Age-related sleep changes and common sleep disorders like obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may increase amyloid burden and represent risk factors for cognitive decline. In this ... -
Investigating the Temperature Dependence of Age-related Tau Pathology Relevant to Early Alzheimer's Disease
The purpose of this study is to assess how day to day patterns in how your body temperature naturally varies over time may contribute to ... -
Brain Effects of Lifetime Racial/Ethnic Discrimination on the LC-NE Function and the Risk for Alzheimer's Disease
The purpose of our study is to understand how the effects of stress, induced by social factors such as racial discrimination, contribute to an increased ... -
Using a Health Disparity Research Framework to examine mechanisms linking Obstructive Sleep Apnea with higher Alzheimer s disease risk in older Blacks/African-Americans
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether older African Americans with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) have a higher risk for Alzheimer’s Disease ...