short term memory

I just read that a study done on apnea patients indicated that the problems with short term memory typically don't get better when OSA is treated with CPAP (they weren't saying that any other treatment did work, just that "treated" meant with CPAP). The short article that refers to it is in the sample newsletter at http://www.sleepapnea.org

That is something I was really hoping to see improve soon!

Zees Pleez wrote:I just read that a study done on apnea patients indicated that the problems with short term memory typically don't get better when OSA is treated with CPAP

Damn. That sucks. I ....

I was gonna say something, but I forget what it was.

Liam, um... yeah. Liam. I'm pretty sure.

This is based on a study from back in 1998

Link Here

However, short term memory is often used as a criteria for SA determination...

Here is another PowerPoint Presentation that seems to disagree with the assumptions made in the first study. Link Here

Now, you might ask, how can 2 doctors come up with completely different conclusions? Well, without knowing all of the conditions of the studies it is VERY difficult to say.