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Short-term memory performances during sustained wakefulness in patients with obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome.

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Both working and immediate memories were assessed every 4h by specific short-term memory tasks over sustained wakefulness in 12 patients with obstructive sleep apnea and hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) and 10 healthy controls. Results indicated that OSAHS patients exhibited lower working memory performances than controls on both backward digit span and complex Sternberg tasks. Speed and accuracy on Sternberg tasks were affected by memory load in both groups. However, immediate memory was not impaired in OSAHS patients. Diurnal and nocturnal SaO(2) were correlated with speed and accuracy high-speed memory scanning performance on Sternberg tasks in patients. These results suggest specific working memory deficits associated with OSAHS over sustained wakefulness with a possible deficiency in the central executive responsible for the higher information processing, in addition to a potentially insufficient storage capacity. Among OSAHS patients, working memory ability involved in high-speed memory scanning may be impaired by chronic hypoxemia.

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hal-00634709 , version 1 (22-10-2011)

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Jérome Grenèche, Jean Krieger, Frédéric Bertrand, Christine Erhardt, Myriam Maumy-Bertrand, et al.. Short-term memory performances during sustained wakefulness in patients with obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome.. Brain and Cognition, 2011, 75 (1), pp.39-50. ⟨10.1016/j.bandc.2010.10.003⟩. ⟨hal-00634709⟩
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