FACT CHECK: Is sleep deprivation making your brain ‘eat itself’?

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FACT:
Misleading. While sleep deprivation could lead brain disorder including Alzheimer’s, ‘brain eating itself’ is an oversimplification

Another study  found that sleep deprivation could lead to Alzheimer’s.”Epidemiologic studies in humans suggest that sleep disruption and chronic short sleep may be risk factors for neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common neurodegenerative disorder,” says the study.

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First Check spoke to Dr Ankit Daral MBBS, MD Consultant Psychiatrist, Indira Gandhi Hospital, New Delhi, who said that “’brain eating itself’ was a misleading oversimplification.”

Read: https://firstcheck.in/fact-check-sleep-deprivation-brain-eat-itself/

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