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  1. Help for sundowning?

    [QUOTE=TedHutchinson;502371][url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001215/?tool=pubmed]Clinical Aspects of Melatonin Intervention in Alzheimer’s Disease Progression[/url]

    Your doctor should be able to prescribe melatonin to help restore circadian rhythm.
    If not it's readily available from the USA. Time release is probably better. You may want to split the dose so one early evening and one on getting into bed. That way the first will make it easier to go to sleep ...
  2. Circadian Rhythm Disturbances in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease

    I've been reading the paper [url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20833237](Re-)activation of neurons in aging and dementia[/url] Unfortunately it isn't free full text online however the abstract gives a summary of the paper. One of the key points they make is that a dysfunctional clock may underlie disordered rhythms in AD. They point to research showing additional bright light improved the rest-activity rhythms and giving bright light and/or melatonin to AD patients slowed the progression of ...