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Sleep disturbance and Alzheimer’s disease: Relationship to behavioral problems

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We studied the sleep characteristics of 108 outpatients with probable Alzheimer’s disease and found that sleep disturbance was significantly related to daytime behavioral disturbance but not to cognitive impairment. Possible treatment strategies and neu-ropathological and neurochemical mechanisms are discussed. (Aging 3: 193-196, 1991)

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  1. Department of Mental Hygiene, The Johns Hopkins University, 624 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA

    George W. Rebok Ph.D.

  2. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    George W. Rebok Ph.D., B. W. Rovner & M. F. Folstein

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Rebok, G.W., Rovner, B.W. & Folstein, M.F. Sleep disturbance and Alzheimer’s disease: Relationship to behavioral problems. Aging Clin Exp Res 3, 193–196 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03324003

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