Getting either too much or too little sleep is associated with changes in the brain that have been shown to increase the risk of stroke and dementia later in life Conditions like stroke or dementia are the end-stage result of a long process that ends tragically It also provides evidence toward helping us understand how sleep and sleep duration can be a modifiable risk factor for brain health later in life We hope this study and others can offer insight into how we can modify sleep in patients to improve brain health in years to come Matter hyper intensities (WMH), which are lesions on the brain indicating brain ageing, and fractional anisotropy, which measures the uniformity of water diffusion along nerve axons. middle-aged participants to evaluate how sleeping habits might impact two measures of brain health
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