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Article: Sleep disorders linked to faulty brain chemistry, study finds.
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- Pain & Central Nervous System Week
- Article date:
- July 28, 2003
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2003 JUL 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The first tantalizing clues that chemical imbalances in the brain may be partly to blame for certain life-disrupting sleep disorders are being reported in two new studies by University of Michigan Health System researchers.
In two papers in the July 8, 2003 issue of the journal Neurology, the team reported apparent links between deficits in brain chemistry and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD). Both are relatively common sleep problems that disturb the slumber - and daytime behavior - of millions of Americans.
The new findings were made using two types of neurochemical brain ...