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Treating Childhood Sleep Apnea Improved Cognitive Function

Publish date: June 22, 2012
By
Sherry Boschert

 

Treating childhood sleep apnea normalized levels of neuronal metabolites in the brain and improved attention at other measures of cognitive function, explains Dr. Ann Halbower.

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