Health Experts reveal which sleep disturbances may signal something deeper, and when you should be concerned. Your sleeping habits can directly impact your brain’s health, and the health of your brain can affect how you sleep. So when your body is experiencing one or multiple chronic sleep disturbances, it could potentially signal something deeper ― including dementia. “The relationship between sleep disturbances and dementia is an important dynamic, and rapidly evolving area of investigation,” said Dr. Arman Fesharaki-Zadeh , assistant professor of neurology at Yale School of Medicine. “There’s a strong association between sleep disruption ― particularly impairment of slow-wave sleep (SWS), also referred to as deep sleep ― and an increased risk of developing dementia. Alterations in sleep architecture, including reductions in SWS, may serve as early biomarkers of neurodegenerative disease.” Your brain has a network called the glymphatic system that clears toxins while you sleep.…