5 Areas of Brain Damage Caused By Obstructive Sleep Apnoea

  • Posted in Sleep Apnoea
  •  By Loran Simon

memoryDr. Roland Harper, a distinguished professor of neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine of UCLA, has confirmed that untreated obstructive sleep apnoea causes significant brain damage. Repeated apnoea episodes lead to low oxygen levels to the brain damaging specific areas of the brain.

Brain damage caused by untreated OSA can be seen in the right insular cortex responsible for pain and barofeflexes, the vetrolateral medulla which controls breathing and blood pressure, the cerebellum that controls motor and vascular activity, the mammary bodies which grow smaller in OSA patients leading to memory loss, and finally damage to the hippocampus will affects both short term and long-term memory.

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