High risk of near-crash driving events following night-shift work

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 176-181

  Lee, Michael L ^a,b   Howard, Mark E ^a,c   Horrey, William J ^d   Liang, Yulan ^d   Anderson, Clare ^a,b,e   Shreeve, Michael S ^a   O'Brien, Conor S ^a   Czeisler, Charles A ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^d LIBERTY MUTUAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SAFETY   (United States)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drowsy driving; EEG; Fatigue; Infrared oculography; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DRIVING ABILITY; DROWSINESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NIGHT SLEEP; NIGHT WORK; OCULOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; BLINKING; CAR DRIVING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SLEEP DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SLEEP STAGE; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BLINKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP DISORDERS, CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; SLEEP STAGES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84953302692     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1510383112     Document Type: Article

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