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Re: Can't sleep w/o CPAP, PERIOD!!!

Posted by - Sleepy Coote on November 26, 2002 at 18:16:52:

In Reply to: Re: Can't sleep w/o CPAP, PERIOD!!! posted by John Len on November 26, 2002 at 17:43:12:

Or perhaps as SGS alludes: a link between sleep apnea and our very unique ability for speech. As SGS points out, speech is exclusive to humans while apnea is nearly exclusive to our species.

A recent medical study was discussed on this board: there is a correlation between speech impediments and apnea. My wacky guess about the link between those two:

More muscles and more neural circuitry are required by us humans to coordinate our highly complex speech patterns. That much greater biological complexity in humans brings a much greater greater risk of the very speech mechanisms (our muscles and neural circuitry) malfunctioning.

Thus when our neural circuits that control speech-related muscles are damaged, one might also expect impaired control in those same muscles toward other purposes---such as holding the airway open during sleep. Not that everyone with apnea has speech problems. I think that medical study simply describes one apnea scenario and one correlation.

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