NPR, Jon Hamilton 12/21/16
For patients with serious brain injuries, there’s a strong link between sleep patterns and recovery.
A study of 30 patients hospitalized for moderate to severe traumatic brain injuries found that sleep quality and brain function improved in tandem, researchers reportedWednesday in the journal Neurology.
Patients who still had low levels of consciousness and cognitive functioning would “sleep for a couple of minutes and then wake up for a couple of minutes,” both day and night, says Nadia Gosselin, the study’s senior author and an assistant professor in the psychology department at the University of Montreal.
Link: Full Article – As Sleep Improves, So Does An Injured Brain