Sleep position and brain maintenance

Sleep position and brain maintenance enters the Adult Cognitive Disease corpus through the work of Shanmugam Sankarakumaru (submission 100), and is indexed here as one of the concepts that submission puts to work.

The argument it belongs to

Shanmugam Sankarakumaru's submission is summarised in this corpus as:

Alzheimer's disease is caused by inadequate cerebral blood supply resulting from age-related failure of physiological reflexes that maintain blood flow to the brain against gravity. Reduced 'head down time' during sleep disrupts brain cell maintenance and rejuvenation, leading to progressive neurodegeneration.

Where it sits

The submission scores against the framework's convergence nodes as: compensatory paradigm 1 · neuroimmune interface 1.

Its declared subject matter: cerebral-blood-flow, vascular, sleep, gravity, atherosclerosis, hypoperfusion, aging.

Named by the same submission

3 other concepts enter the corpus through the same paper, so they cover adjacent ground: Atherosclerotic obstruction · Gravity and cerebral perfusion · Vascular insufficiency hypothesis.

Assembled from the corpus rather than written: the summary is quoted from the submission that named it; the node scores are read from its dossier. It has not yet been expanded into an article.