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..To test the neurobehavioral consequences of sleep restriction combined with fatigue from long-distance driving (1000 Km/600 miles)...

..To identify risk factors of performance decrement in automobile drivers...

..This study confirms that "owls" are not rare in a middle-aged sample. We conclude that this adapted MEQ could be useful when investigating age-related changes in sleep...

..To induce a heart rate change in normal subjects using auditory stimulation without inducing EEG arousals and to assess the effects on daytime functioning and compare results to auditory stimulation leading to short EEG arousals...

..Sleep-related accidents often involve healthy young persons who are driving at night. Coffee and napping restore alertness, but no study has compared their effects on real nighttime driving performances...

..To determine whether real-life driving would produce different effects from those obtained in a driving simulator on fatigue, performances and sleepiness...

..Insomnia is common and associated with poor health status and quality of life. We designed a study to evaluate the impact of insomniac complaints with and without comorbidity on health status and absenteeism...

..Still, there are effects and the consequences may be far-reaching...

..2 (95% CI: 1.3--3.8). Employees suffering from severe subjective daytime somnolence lose more working days for health reasons than their more alert colleagues. This may have long-term implications for employees' health...

..Sleepiness combined with fatigue significantly affected RT. Road safety campaigns should encourage drivers to avoid driving after sleep restriction, even on relatively short trips especially if they feel sleepy...

..Collagen injections in monkey's upper airways can create sleep-disordered breathing and abnormal sleep, as seen in sleep apneic patients...

..Our study suggests that public awareness may need to be raised with respect excessive length of driving, especially in young drivers...

..Why they were less affected by sleep deprivation is not clear. This raises the question of individual susceptibility to the modification of sleep parameters...

..To test the effects of coffee and napping on nocturnal driving in young and middle-aged participants...

..Our study first looked at the impact of objective and subjective sleepiness on fatigue in patients with TBI. We then investigated how fatigue could affect driving performance in these patients...

..CONCLUSION: The results of the study highlight variables (long-distance driving, youth, sleep restriction) that are frequently associated with sleep-related accidents...

..CONCLUSION: Despite the well-known acute effects of caffeine on sleep, habitual use of up to 7 cups of coffee (or 600 mg of caffeine equivalent) per day was not associated with decreased duration of sleep...

..To determine the ability of Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT) to predict simulated driving performance in patients suffering from sleep apnea syndrome...

..These findings must be verified by further epidemiological studies, but they suggest that the impossibility to return to sleep in the early morning is not only associated with age...

..Moreover, total sleep deprivation does not affect interference control in any of the three short Stroop tasks...

..Drivers education and work schedules integrating notions of sleep hygiene as well as promotion of sleep medicine could significantly improve road safety...

..Sleepiness and self-perception of performance were equally affected in both age groups showing different perception of performance in the age groups. Our findings are discussed in terms of vulnerability to sleep-related accidents...

..The impact of confinement and sleep deprivation on risk-taking propensity is a key issue in crew management. We investigated both confinement and gender effects on risk propensity and performance during up to 36 h of extended wakefulness...

..05) and increased significantly during the nocturnal driving sessions compared to the reference session (P<.01). At night, extended driving impairs driving performances and therefore should be limited...

..01) identically in both categories (rANOVA, NS). Resistant subjects sustained their reaction time independently of the increase in homeostatic pressure. The phenotypic determinants of vulnerability to extended wakefulness remain unknown...

..Inhibitory motor control relies on the integrity of the inferior prefrontal cortex, which could be affected by nocturnal oxyhemoglobin desaturation in apneic patients...

..These results suggest that both the circadian signal and the kinetics of sleep pressure buildup differ between the two chronotypes even under prior naturalistic conditions mimicking the usual working day...

..e., stroke patients). We therefore created a modified version of the questionnaire to be used in patients' bed partners to test whether it could give identical results to the original form of BSQ...

..The working-memory inhibition executive function shows greater resistance to acute sleep deprivation than does psychomotor reaction time for the performance of short tasks...

..To evaluate of the effect of 7 days of sleep restriction--with sleep placed at the beginning of night or early morning hours - on sleep variables, maintenance of wakefulness test, and serum leptin...

..80, > 60% of explained variance) which better predicted the decrease in performances of nocturnal operational tasks requiring sustained attention...

..The authors found that placement of the anterior cervical plates reduced the size of the upper airway. Symptoms and objective findings were controlled with nasal continuous positive airway pressure...

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