OSA & Memory Loss

[James @ Intus]

In one of the most surprising recent studies on OSA, researchers discovered that people with sleep apnoea showed tissue loss in brain regions that help store memory.

The findings demonstrated that impaired breathing during sleep can lead to a serious brain injury that disrupts memory and thinking.

From Health24.

Now this probably doesn't come as much of a surprise to many of you. What they don't say though is whether successful treatment leads to repair of this damage and reversal of memory function. What do you reckon? Did your memory improve after starting with CPAP?

[mintra]

Its all in the mind

I have been concerned about this issue, I have had real difficult remembering customer company names at work, as well as my usual people name recall.

Anyway I just started on cpap last week I asked the guy who was showing me the machine he seems obsessed with his subject and he said he thought it was a load of rubbish about permanent damage.

In his view the memory issues are all caused by the sleep deprivation, and will go when you start real sleeping.

I have been on my machine a week and I have had a dramatic recall improvement.

My best guess is that new data encoded and stored after cpap will be recalled as well as any "normal" persons. Stuff memorised before treatment may be a bit slower.

Rest assured all is good.