The impact of sleep timing and bright light exposure on attentional impairment during night work

Journal of Biological Rhythms

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 341-352

  Santhi, Nayantara ^a   Aeschbach, Daniel ^b   Horowitz, Todd S ^b   Czeisler, Charles A ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Attentional impairment; Circadian misalignment; Response time; Shift work; Sleep

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; NIGHT WORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; RESPONSE TIME; SHIFT WORKER; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SLEEP TIME;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MELATONIN; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS, CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; TIME FACTORS; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 47549117711     PISSN: 07487304     EISSN: 15524531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748730408319863     Document Type: Article

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