• Concussion can lead to lasting sleep problems, study finds.

    Concussion can lead to lasting sleep problems, study finds.

    A study published in Neurology recently found concussions appear to cause long lasting sleep problems lasting for years.

    NPR’s recent post states, “A study of 31 patients with this sort of brain injury found that 18 months afterward, they were still getting, on average, an hour more sleep each night than similar healthy people were getting. And despite the extra sleep, 67 percent showed signs of excessive daytime sleepiness. Only 19 percent of healthy people had that problem.

    Surprisingly, most of these concussed patients had no idea that their sleep patterns had changed.”

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