Can a sleeping pill protect against Alzheimer's damage?

Can a sleeping pill protect against Alzheimer's damage?

A common sleep aid restores healthier sleep patterns and protects mice from the brain damage seen in neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease, according to new research. The drug, lemborexant, prevents the harmful buildup of an abnormal form of a protein called tau in the brain, reducing the inflammatory brain damage tau is known to cause in Alzheimer’s. The study suggests that lemborexant and other drugs that work in the same wa…