Acute sleep deprivation and circadian misalignment associated with transition onto the first night of work impairs visual selective attention

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Santhi, Nayantara ^a,b   Horowitz, Todd S ^a,b   Duffy, Jeanne F ^a,b   Czeisler, Charles A ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NIGHT WORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHIFT WORKER; SIMULATION; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREND STUDY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WORK SCHEDULE; ACUTE DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISION; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 43349093765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001233     Document Type: Article

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