Silent Brain Infarction Lesions

kteague wrote:

Thanks for sharing these links. Over the years my brain scans showed microvascular lesions increasing both in size and number.

Sleep Apnea Patients Have Shrunken Brain Structures Involved in Memory. Brain scans reveal that the mammillary bodies of a sleep apnea patient are smaller than those of a control subject .

Mammillary Bodies May Hold Clues to Explain Memory Loss
The presence of recent-memory deficits in obstructive sleep apnea suggests potential for damage in the mammillary bodies similar to that found in other memory-affected conditions, such as Korsakoff's syndrome, the group writes. "These volume reductions may reflect neural alterations that contribute to memory deficits frequently found in the syndrome," the group writes, adding that the magnitude of the volume loss suggests a potential for significant memory-processing deficits.

Although the mechanisms underlying mammillary-body volume loss in obstructive sleep apnea remains to be determined, the researchers suspect that the injury primarily results from hypoxic or inflammatory processes that accompany the intermittent lack of oxygen, with the possibility that thiamine or other nutritional deficiency fails to provide adequate neural protection.

In a future study, the group will explore whether taking supplemental vitamin B1 helps restore memory in patients with sleep apnea.

Starlette wrote:Too read those articles sounds like I have to be a highly educated doctor. So, laymen's terms what does it mean?

Starlette