α-Synuclein Responses: Implications for Early Appearance of Sleep Disorders in Parkinson’s Disease

Sleep Disorders (SDs) precede motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD), suggesting an early effect of disease processes on sleep control neurons.  These nucleus-specific differential effects suggest previously unappreciated, mechanistic underpinnings of SDs’ prodromal PD appearance in PD, and we
hypothesize that in the prodromal phase of PD, the early form of α-synuclein compromises sleep-control neurons. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-134060/v1