Auditory event-related potentials and brain dysfunction in sleep apnea |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA;2. Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA;3. School of Mechanical Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, 300013, People’s Republic of China;4. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, The University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA;5. International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I2CNER), Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan |
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| Abstract: | Auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 14 subjects with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) before and after treatment with nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP). After 2 nights of treatment, there was dramatic improvement in the sleep patterns of the OSA patients, improvements in measures of apnea severity and oxygenation, and decrease in daytime sleepiness. The results of neuropsychological tests of a broad range of cognitive functions failed to confirm the patients' subjective reports of improvement in psychological functioning after treatment. The latencies of the N2 and P3 components were significantly prolonged prior to treatment, and there was a trend towards smaller N2 and P3 amplitude in the apneic subjects. The latency of P3 (but not N2) changed with treatment, decreasing almost to normative values. The results suggest that ERPs may be useful in documenting neural dysfunction in patients with OSA, in evaluating treatment efficacy, and possibly in determining the causes of the daytime symptoms of OSA. |
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