Environmental heat stress enhances mental fatigue during sustained attention task performing: Evidence from an ASL perfusion study

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 280, Issue , 2015, Pages 6-15

  Qian, Shaowen ^a   Li, Min ^a   Li, Guoying ^a   Liu, Kai ^a   Li, Bo ^a   Jiang, Qingjun ^a   Li, Li ^a   Yang, Zhen ^a   Sun, Gang ^a  

^a JINAN MILITARY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Heat stress; Mental fatigue; Sustained attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTERIAL SPIN LABLEING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN STEM; DYSTHYMIA; FATIGUE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTHERMIA; MALE; MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RESPONSE TIME; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SCINTIGRAPHY; SPIN LABELING; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; THERMAL EXPOSURE; YOUNG ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; HEAT; HEAT INJURY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULATION; VASCULARIZATION;

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PROTEIN RET; RET ONCOGENE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; SPIN LABELING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL FATIGUE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERFUSION IMAGING; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPIN LABELS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84916887274     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.11.036     Document Type: Article

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