Prolonged sleep duration as a marker of early neurodegeneration predicting incident dementia
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- Received March 17, 2016
- Accepted in final form December 29, 2016
- First Published February 22, 2017.
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Author Disclosures
- Andrew J. Westwood, MD,
- Alexa Beiser, PhD,
- Nikita Jain,
- Jayandra J. Himali, PhD,
- Charles DeCarli, MD,
- Sanford H. Auerbach, MD,
- Matthew P. Pase, PhD* and
- Sudha Seshadri, MD*
- Andrew J. Westwood, MD,
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- Alexa Beiser, PhD,
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Brooks Cole, Introductory Applied Statistics, 2005
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NIH/NINDS, biostatistician, 2 R01 NS017950-28, 2009-2014 NIH/NIA, biostatistician, 5 R01 AG08122, 2005-2010 NIH/NIA, biostatistician, 2 R01 AG16495, 2005-2010 NIA/NINDS, biostatistician, 1 R01 AG033040-01, 2009-2013 NIH/NHLBI, biostatistician, R01 HL093029-01A1, 2009-2011
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- Nikita Jain,
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- Charles DeCarli, MD,
1) Novartis Pharmaceuticals
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1)Novartis Pharmaceuticals
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National Institutes of Health
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- Sanford H. Auerbach, MD,
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- Matthew P. Pase, PhD* and
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Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
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Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Fellowship. APP1089698. PI. 2015-2018.
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- Sudha Seshadri, MD*
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Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, Associate Editor since 2005. Stroke: Editorial Board since 2010. Neurology: Editorial Board since 2011.
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NIA AG008122, AG033040, AG049505, AG033193, AG049607, AG054076
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- From the Department of Neurology (A.J.W., A.B., J.J.H., S.H.A., M.P.P., S.S.), Boston University School of Medicine; Department of Biostatistics (A.B., J.J.H.), Boston University School of Public Health; Framingham Heart Study (A.B., J.J.H., S.H.A., M.P.P., S.S.); Department of Neuroscience (N.J.), Boston University, MA; University of California at Davis (C.D.), Sacramento; and Center for Human Psychopharmacology (M.P.P.), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.
- Correspondence to Dr. Pase: matthewpase{at}gmail.com or Dr. Seshadri: suseshad{at}bu.edu
Article usage
Letters: Rapid online correspondence
- Authors Response to Dr. Munakomi
- Matthew P. Pase, Sidney Sax Senior Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology; Boston University School of Medicine; Framingham Heart Study[email protected]
- AJ Westwood; A Beiser; N Jain; C DeCarli; JJ Himali; SH Auerbach; S Seshadri
Submitted June 22, 2017 - Disturbed sleep hygiene and amyloid plague deposition
- Sunil Munakomi, M Ch Neurosurgery, Kathmandu University[email protected]
Submitted May 08, 2017 - Authors response to Liguori et al.
- Matthew P. Pase, Sidney Sax Senior Research Fellow, Boston University School of Medicine, Framingham Heart Study, and Swinburne University of Technology[email protected]
- Sudha Seshadri, Boston, MA
Submitted April 13, 2017 - Long sleep duration and dementia: Could obstructive sleep apnea be responsible for neurodegeneration?
- Claudio Liguori, MD, PhD student, University Hospital of Rome "Tor Vergata"[email protected]
- Francesca Izzi, Nicola B. Mercuri, Fabio Placidi, Rome
Submitted April 05, 2017
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