Sleep Apnea and Poor Memory

Sleep Apnea, which affects about 20 million Americans, results in memory loss, poor concentration, and chronic fatigue. (from an earlier Smartkit post)

Adding to the evidence that sleep apnea induces structural abnormalities in the brain- a new study out of UCLA shows patients with Sleep Apnea have shrunken mammillary bodies (brain structures important for memory function). Click here to read the abstract.

Here’s the press release from the UCLA website.

One Comment to “Sleep Apnea and Poor Memory”

  1. suineg | Profile (beta)

    Wow, I think I suffer in some degree from that, because I always have like chronic fatigue, and sometimes my memory fails, and my thinking became slow, sometimes like a dizzyness too.


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