{"id":1434,"date":"2018-09-13T10:39:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T14:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/bht\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2022-08-02T09:31:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T13:31:54","slug":"bedtime-a-boon-for-the-aging-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/bht\/2018\/09\/13\/bedtime-a-boon-for-the-aging-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedtime: A Boon For The Aging Brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"processed\">Could teaching individuals with mild cognitive decline how to sleep better actually stave off their descent into dementia?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s Meghan Mattos\u2019 focus. And with support from a $300,000 Translational Health Research Institute grant, Mattos \u2013 an assistant professor of nursing at the University of Virginia who\u2019s studied rural-dwelling adults with mild cognitive impairment \u2013 will determine the feasibility of an online sleep education program developed by UVA psychology professor Lee Ritterband in older adults with this early form of dementia.<\/p>\n<p>The hypothesis, Mattos explained, is not only that the six-week program may offer non-pharmacological insomnia relief to patients with mild cognitive impairment, but that purposefully improving their sleep patterns through an accessible online program may slow their otherwise likely decline towards dementia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know if bad sleep is causing dementia, or dementia is causing bad sleep,\u201d Mattos said, \u201cbut we\u00a0<em>do<\/em>\u00a0know that there\u2019s a relationship between them, and we hope to find out what is causing what\u201d \u2013 and what difference a program like Ritterband\u2019s SHUTi OASIS (Sleep Healthy Using the Internet for Older Adult Sufferers of Insomnia and Sleeplessness) might make.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.virginia.edu\/content\/bedtime-boon-aging-brain\">READ MORE&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could teaching individuals with mild cognitive decline how to sleep better actually stave off their descent into dementia? 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