Sleep Apnea Linked to Memory Loss

[RedEarth]

WEDNESDAY, June 11 (HealthDay News) -- People with sleep apnea show tissue loss in brain regions that help store memory, a University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) study shows.

"Our findings demonstrate that impaired breathing during sleep can lead to serious brain injury that disrupts memory and thinking," principal investigator Ronald Harper, a professor of neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said in a prepared statement.

http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2008/06/11/sleep-apnea-linked-to-memory-loss.html

[nebenaube]

1. tis a well know fact...

<< isa RPSGT

[varkam]

4. Hey, me too!

Not many of us around. Were you at the AASM meeting in Baltimore?

[Joe_VB]

2. I thank the gods for my CPAP machine.......eot

[WildClarySage]

3. And I thank the gods for my husbands!!!