Deep Sleep May Help the Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins

Re:Deep Sleep May Help the Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins by pontusrehula on Friday November 01, 2019 @01:01AM (#21416398)

I have a practical kind of question about this kind of research. How do you put a sleeping person in to an MRI machine without waking him/her up?

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Re:Deep Sleep May Help the Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins by nabla9 on Friday November 01, 2019 @06:08AM (#21417372)

Usually the fall asleep in the machine.

- People selected don't have sleeping disorders. They must abstain from caffeine and stimulants 24 hours before test.

- Sleep deprivation may be used.

- Ear plugs, active noise cancelation, possibly polyurethane hood in magnet bore

- lower spatial resolution and slower gradient switching speed

When you take measures outside MRI, you may have to play the MRI sound to get comparable results.

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Re:Deep Sleep May Help the Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins by hellofunk on Friday November 01, 2019 @01:52AM (#21416556)

The article said they were using cutting edge MRI techniques, whatever that means.

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