FV1. Physiological sleep alterations in heathy aging and mild cognitive impairment

Old adults do not sleep as well as young adults. Mounting evidence demonstrates that sleep characteristics, such as sleep duration, structures and importantly the quantity and quality of specific sleep oscillations, decrease during aging and particularly strong in neurodegenerative disorders. These alterations might be related to functional consequences like memory impairment as observed in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Some previous work indicated...