Changes In Flies Parallel Sundown Syndrome Which May Be Due To High Dopamine Levels

<p>Main Category: Alzheimers / Dementia
Also Included In: Seniors / Aging;  Endocrinology
Article Date: 15 May 2012 1:00 PDT</p>

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<p>Perelman School of Medicine during a University of Pennsylvania researchers have detected a resource involving a neurotransmitter dopamine that switches fruit fly function from being active during a day (diurnal) to nocturnal. This change parallels a tellurian commotion in that increasing restlessness occurs in a dusk hours nearby nightfall and might also be due to aloft than normal dopamine levels in a brain. Sundown syndrome occurs in comparison people with insanity or cognitive impairment.</p>

<p>Many geriatricians have remarkable an organisation between dusk syndrome and changes in a inner biological time among people with dementia, watching disruptions in their sleep-wake cy...