NEW STUDY UNDER WAY ON SLEEP ISSUES & DOWN SYNDROME!

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Research under way at the University of Arizona is revealing a connection between quality of sleep and the learning and memory functions in children with Down Syndrome.

"It's well known that children with Down Syndrome are vulnerable to developingsleep apnea which results in pauses in breathing," UA psychology student Jennifer Breslin says. Breslin has been conducting a study looking at children with Down Syndrome and the occurrence of sleep apnea.

"if we can demonstrate that kids with poor sleep have poor cognitive outcomes, we can make a case for intervention and ultimately improving their behavior and learning ability," she says. "If we could give these kids a better quality of life, that would be awesome."

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Of course with Courtney being recently diagnosed with sleep apnea I will be very interested in the findings of this research. I already emailed to see if Courtney would qualify for this research.