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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 13 Elderly Sleep Disorders Research of the memory function Of: Liu Xiaoping Chen Long Xiang Li Jianmin [Keywords:] Aged; sleep disorders; Memory Sleep and memory are the two most important human brain’s basic physiological functions, at present, sleep and learning and memory has become a hot area of research (1). Elderly sleep disorders and memory impairment have a high incidence, and sleep disorders and can lead to a decline in memory function (2,3). In this paper, normal sleep disorders affect the elderly of cognitive function were reviewed. Sleep and memory in the elderly 1 Correlation When people engage in a new activity, the relative regional brain active, these regions are activated again Shiyou sleep, sleep with the memory that there is some connection between (4). With age, the elderly sleep disorder prevalence also increased, sleep disorders in older age groups the prevalence was 30% ~ 40%, 90% more than even the report of a nationwide .2006 of Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Inventory for the elderly (PSQI) score display, sleep disturbance and 49.9% (3.) 1.1 sleep disorders on cognition, memory is the impact of sleep problems increased with age, the inevitable result, and will inevitably lead to impaired cognitive function. Elderly people appear to sleep difficulties, arousal difficulties, easy to wake up at night, early awakening, difficulty maintaining sleep, sleep problems, which in turn led to attention, memory and other cognitive decline and dysfunction slow (5). Haimov, etc. (6) found that sleep disorders in the elderly and cognitive disorders, in particular, memory span, attention allocation, Shijian estimates, executive function, two-dimensional integration and so on. A study of community elderly Zhiyuan Zhe study found that sleep quality differences exist based on the nature of some of their cognitive and memory abilities such as working memory, attention, problem solving and other abstract significantly differ