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(Message started by: Ted on Nov 19^th, 2002, 1:12pm)

Title: Stuttering causes clusters
Post by Ted on Nov 19^th, 2002, 1:12pm

Just draw your own conclusions and you'll see it does.

Sleep Apnea, Stuttering May Be Linked
Tue November 19, 2002 10:31 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stuttering and a serious form of snoring known as sleep apnea may be linked, and both conditions may be caused by brain damage sustained early in life, US researchers said on Monday.
A team at the University of California Los Angeles found that nearly 40% of sleep apnea patients they studied also stuttered as children.

Sleep apnea is a serious form of snoring in which a patient's breathing actually stops several times a night. It is linked with a high rate of heart death.

"For decades, we have blamed sleep apnea solely on a narrowed airway caused by enlarged tonsils, a small jaw or excess fat in the throat," Dr. Ronald Harper, a professor of neurobiology who led the study, said in a statement.

"Our findings show, however, that sleep apnea patients also suffer disordered wiring in brain regions that control muscles of the airway. These glitches may lead to the syndrome."

Writing in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Harper and his colleagues said they used magnetic resonance imaging to compare the brains of 21 men diagnosed with sleep apnea with 21 men free of the disorder.

The MRIs revealed a dramatic loss of gray matter--brain cells--in the men with sleep apnea. The worst-hit areas were those involved in speech production, movement and emotion.

The amount of brain damage correlated directly to the severity of sleep apnea. The healthy men's brains were 2% to 18% larger in these areas than the men with sleep apnea.

"We propose that early damage to the brain's speech center triggers problems in the muscles that control the airway. This, in turn, eventually leads to sleep apnea," said Dr. Paul Macey, who also worked on the study.

"Because the sleep apnea patients possessed speech impairments from childhood and their brain's speech center revealed significant gray matter loss, this brain damage likely originated early in life."

The researchers said 38% of the sleep apnea patients reported a history of stuttering or speech impairment. Overall, 7% of the general population stutters.

"Speech impediments may prove an important diagnostic clue for assessing and treating sleep apnea," Macey added. "In the future, doctors may monitor certain brain structures and examine children for speech or movement problems that may predict a higher sleep apnea risk."

Title: Re: Stuttering causes clusters
Post by RevDeFord on Nov 19^th, 2002, 1:46pm

That is me.......though I don't attribute CH to my brain injury, I did have a major brain injury as a baby which is a cause of alot of my meegraines and seizures.

Title: Re: Stuttering causes clusters
Post by Slammy on Nov 19^th, 2002, 5:05pm

on 11/19/02 at 13:46:48, RevDeFord wrote:

That is me.......though I don't attribute CH to my brain injury, I did have a major brain injury as a baby which is a cause of alot of my meegraines and seizures.

as well as some of your over- the- top posts! milk it, dude! ;D

Slammy 8)

Title: Re: Stuttering causes clusters
Post by Charlie on Nov 19^th, 2002, 5:25pm

Interesting Ted, you goof:

I began stuttering badly at 12. I was wreck until 11th grade. My stuttering eased to the point that few people know it exists. I've never had apnea and I have no brain that I can see.

Charlie

Title: Re: Stuttering causes clusters
Post by cerebus on Nov 19^th, 2002, 6:05pm

hrmmmm interesting.....amazingly though, I have no stuttering problem :-X and as far as I know no brain damage ( debatable) ::) and well.....I suppose I'd have to actually sleep to have apnea. I reckon. ;D

Cerebus

Title: Re: Stuttering causes clusters
Post by RevDeFord on Nov 19^th, 2002, 6:24pm

Hey Slammy, I thought you were in a constant state of brain injury.......and sleep apnea is the reason you haven't gotten enough oxygen to that cranium of yours in so many years.

Milking away

;D

Title: Re: Stuttering causes clusters
Post by BobG on Nov 19^th, 2002, 6:30pm

brain damage sustained early in life,
high rate of heart death
narrowed airway caused by enlarged tonsils,
excess fat in the throat
disordered wiring in brain
a dramatic loss of gray matter

For the 7 per cent of the population that suffers from struttering............Damn! it sucks to be you. ;)

Title: Re: Stuttering causes clusters
Post by Slammy on Nov 19^th, 2002, 6:34pm

on 11/19/02 at 18:24:08, RevDeFord wrote:

Hey Slammy, I thought you were in a constant state of brain injury.......and sleep apnea is the reason you haven't gotten enough oxygen to that cranium of yours in so many years.

Milking away

;D

That's why I have my bottle of O2 next to my bed, so when I wake up in the mornin', I suck in a large dose of the "smarts" so I can bandy snappy words of insolence with the likes of ya! btw..... Sam Kennison was a preacher of sorts, wasn't he? ;D

Slammy (the relentless asswipe!) 8)