Carmen Varela of FAU received the Alzheimer’s Association’s Research Fellowship to Promote Diversity to investigate the link between sleep patterns and brain health. Varela will use animal models to identify new indicators of sleep quality.
“Sleep disruption is not only distressful for patients with Alzheimer’s disease, it’s disruptive for their caregivers,” said Varela. “This Alzheimer’s Association fellowship will support the development of non-invasive methods to monitor sleep quality, which will provide a key advance to assess if new candidate drugs truly restore sleep quality in the brain.”
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