Sex moderates apolipoprotein E ε4 effects on sleep expression and memory retention
Introduction:
Sleep-dependent memory consolidation differs by sex and maybe disrupted by Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk. Whether sex moderates associations between apolipoprotein E ε4 ( APOE ε4 ) status, non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, and memory remains unclear.
Methods:
Eighty cognitively unimpaired older adults completed a word-pair memory task with encoding and immediate testing occurring prior to overnight polysomnography with high-density electroencephalography (hdEEG) and delayed recall occurring after sleep. Sleep-memory associations were examined as a function of sex and APOE ε4 status.
Results:
In this sample, a sex× APOE ε4 interaction was associated with overnight memory retention, with female carriers exhibiting less overnight forgetting than female non-carriers and male ε4 carriers. NREM sleep differed by sex and APOE ε4 status and was associated with memory retention in ε4 carriers.
Discussion:
These findings indicate sex-specific, sleep-dependent memory mechanisms associated with genetic AD risk, highlighting sleep as a potential early target for intervention, pending replication in larger samples.
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