Need a power nap? Here's how a quick snooze can impact your daily life | Just The FAQs

Could taking a quick nap improve your health? We explain.

RELATED: https://youtu.be/TKy0AIKMtEw

Increased, excessive napping could be an early warning of Alzheimer’s disease, according to research published in August by the peer-reviewed journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia.

When people hear about Alzheimer’s they immediately think about memory loss, Lea Grinberg, professor of neurology at the University of California San Francisco told USA TODAY.

Grinberg and 18 other scientists from the University of California San Francisco, University of California, Berkeley and the University of Sao Paulo, among others, worked on the paper.

» Subscribe to USA TODAY: http://bit.ly/1xa3XAh
» Watch more on this and other topics from USA TODAY: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlvHlI3rc2tPuBC9PBwXStBbcZW0GRAUC
» USA TODAY delivers current local and national news, sports, entertainment, finance, technology, and more through award-winning journalism, photos, videos and VR.

#powernaps #sleepbenefits

source