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

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-50

  Grenèche, Jérôme ^a,d,e   Krieger, Jean ^b,d   Bertrand, Frédéric ^c   Erhardt, Christine ^b,d   Maumy, Myriam ^c   Tassi, Patricia ^a,d,e  

^a Université de Strasbourg Faculté de Psychologie   (France)

^b HÔPITAL CIVIL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LOUIS PASTEUR   (France)

^d Centre de Neurochimie   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Digit span; High speed memory scanning; Hypoxemia; Obstructive sleep apnea; Short term memory; Sleepiness; Sternberg task; Sustained wakefulness; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL LOAD; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; OXIMETRY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SOMNOLENCE; WAKEFULNESS; WORKING MEMORY;

ANOXIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 78649445622     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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