Study ties troubled sleep to lower brain volume

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Study ties troubled sleep to lower brain volume

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/study-ties-troubled-sleep-lower-brain-volume-190346074.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/MhiLkAlDDhCZKqRODDbmJA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.abcnewsplus.com/ef97748a7a975dd2dc0ee3d6d8ba5e31" width="130" height="86" alt="Treating Depression May Start With Treating Insomnia" align="left" title="Treating Depression May Start With Treating Insomnia" border="0" /></a>By Ronnie Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who have trouble sleeping tend to have less volume in certain regions of the brain than those without sleep problems, a new study of Persian Gulf War veterans suggests. &quot;People discount the importance of sleep. &quot;The study suggests we shouldn't discount sleep importance,&quot; she said. In their study, sleep was associated with the amount of gray matter in the brain's frontal lobe in particular.</p><br clear="all"/>

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