Preliminary Communication: Intellectual Deficit and Sleep-Related Respiratory Disturbance in the Elderly | Zendy

Jerome A. Yesavage | Zendy; Donald L. Bliwise | Zendy; Christian Guilleminault | Zendy; Mary A. Carskadon | Zendy; William C. Dement | Zendy

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Preliminary Communication: Intellectual Deficit and Sleep-Related Respiratory Disturbance in the Elderly

Author(s) -

Jerome A. Yesavage,

Donald L. Bliwise,

Christian Guilleminault,

Mary A. Carskadon,

William C. Dement

Publication year - 1985

Publication title -

sleep

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222

H-Index - 207

eISSN - 1550-9109

pISSN - 0161-8105

DOI - 10.1093/sleep/8.1.30

Subject(s) - vigilance (psychology) , polysomnography , hypoxemia , neuropsychology , dementia , sleep disorder , psychology , severe dementia , audiology , disturbance (geology) , medicine , cognition , anesthesia , psychiatry , apnea , neuroscience , disease , paleontology , biology

Polysomnography and neuropsychological tests administered to 41 nondemented male subjects (mean age, 69.5) indicated that impaired performance was associated with sleep-related respiratory disturbance. Such deficits could reflect deficits in vigilance or cortical insult resulting from nightly hypoxemia. Whether the degree of impairment observed here predicts more severe dementia will await longitudinal studies.

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