John C Kim and International Adoption Video

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Sleep Apnea Linked to Memory Loss - washingtonpost.com ; early alzheimers ? for osa pts


Wednesday, June 11, 2008; 12:00 AM

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.

Posted via web from wholefamilyjoy's posterous

No comments:

Personal Web site for John C Kim: KIDDOC.ORG

I am a pediatrician specializing in General Pediatrics, International Adoption Medicine, and in the diagnosis and coaching of families pursuing joy.