by British Medical Journal A daytime nap taken once or twice a week may lower the risk of having a heart attack/stroke, finds research published online in the journal Heart. But no such association emerged for either greater frequency or duration of naps. The impact of napping on heart health has been hotly contested. Many...
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Drug candidate stabilizes essential transport mechanism in nerve cells
NAP blocks formation of ‘tangles’ that contribute to Alzheimer’s disease Tau is a key brain protein involved in Alzheimer’s disease and other brain diseases. Aggregates of Tau known as “neurofibrillary tangles” have been associated with nerve cell death and cognitive decline. An important new Tel Aviv University study published in Molecular Psychiatry pinpoints the mechanism harnessed by...