Time on Task and Sleep-Related Fatigue
Focussing on completing one action, is more likely to cause mental fatigue than sleep-related fatigue.
Continue reading →Focussing on completing one action, is more likely to cause mental fatigue than sleep-related fatigue.
Continue reading →Sleep Deprivation Effects on Your Heart – Info-Graphic
Continue reading →Sleeping seven hours everyday will keep you alive longer according to these two studies.
Continue reading →While these tricks may make you feel less fatigued, they may not keep you safe ………..
Continue reading →We can use this research to set up processes within a Fatigue Risk Management System (FRMS)
Continue reading →Free Info-Graphic about the effects of sleep deprivation on your brain
Continue reading →There is a growing interest in this creative sleep solution
Continue reading →The biggest increase in blood plasma concentrations of caffeine can occur 20 minutes faster by chewing caffeinated gum …
Continue reading →Whether you are traveling this holiday season, or you travel for work, here are some tips to help you sleep better during your travels.
Continue reading →..using caffeine as a fatigue prevention strategy or a fatigue countermeasure is a no-brainer.
Continue reading →To increase the likelihood that your 24/7 workforce will care more about getting appropriate sleep before work, and change their lives to do so, jump into their shoes and figure out how you would like to be treated in those shoes…and then, treat your workers that way.
Continue reading →When organizations are setting up their fatigue risk management systems, they will always run into the challenge of assessing fitness to start or continue duty. You will often hear people saying “We cannot simply ask our shift-workers if they are … Continue reading →
REM sleep helps you deal with intense emotional experiences
Continue reading →A recent study suggests that there might be a link between workload and sleep-related fatigue.
Continue reading →Researchers found that sleep deprived people have a harder time remembering positive emotional words than negative emotional words compared to people who get the sleep they need. The difference is striking; there was a 59% deficit for positive words compared to only a 19% deficit for negative words.
Continue reading →A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study showed that the amygdala’s reaction to negative emotional stimuli is greater in magnitude/intensity and volume in people who miss a night of sleep when compared to a control group. This study also showed that the connections between the amygdala and the MPFC were weaker in the sleep deprived group. This means that the amygdala’s reactions can’t be inhibited as well by the MPFC in people who lack sleep.
Continue reading →After only five days of getting a maximum of five hours of sleep people gained up to 2.8 lbs; sleeping up to nine hours per night can help you lose up to 1.2 lbs in five days.
Continue reading →You can tell people that getting more sleep will decrease your risk of an accident or it will make you react faster or it will improve your ability to pay attention. While these are all real benefits of sleep, they are boring and they don’t promise enough personal payoff to justify changing your lifestyle to make sure you get your zzz’s. What you need to do is spice up the argument to get more sleep with promises like you will improve your sex life if you sleep more, and backing it up with facts.
Continue reading →At between 17 and 18.5 hours of continuous wakefulness, many aspect of performance involved with driving (like hand eye-coordination) are at levels similar to what you would find in a person with a Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) of 0.05%.
Continue reading →Sleeping too little or too much, sleep just right.
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