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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"mental fatigue"”.
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The MenFAS Study: Understanding Mental Fatigue after Stroke
Mental fatigue is a highly distressing symptom after stroke, and motor factors alone cannot explain the persistence of severe fatigue even many months after the stroke. Evolving theories suggest that mental fatigue is associated with cognitive impairment in general, and perhaps dysfunction in the …
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The Effect of Mental Fatigue on Risk of Falling
… of this study was to investigate the effects of mental fatigue on gait variables associated with the risk of slipping and tripping. The study also investigated the efficacy of a 10-minute rest break in mitigating the effect of mental fatigue on those variables. Twenty healthy young adults (10 …
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The Development of the Experiential Impact of Mental Fatigue Scale
Measures of mental fatigue often do not consider daily life experiences, and existing measures fail to distinguish among various, potentially dissociable, ways that mental fatigue manifests. The present studies assessed the validity of the newly created Experiential Impact of Mental Fatigue Scale …
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The Differential Effects of Mental Fatigue and Alcohol on Selective Attention
… many industries. Two causes of such deficits are mental fatigue and alcohol intoxication, which impair selective attention by decreasing the efficiency of inhibitory processes. The present research examined the effects of these two factors on the selective attention subtest of the Useful Field of …
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Exploring the effects of mental fatigue on perceptual motor task performance and kinematics
Mentally demanding tasks that require performance accuracy are common in several occupations. However, little is known about how mental fatigue can impact accuracy performance. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis was to examine the impacts of mental fatigue on performance accuracy and arm …
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The Effect of Mental Fatigue on Explicit and Implicit Contributions to Visuomotor Adaptation
To date, mental fatigue has been shown to lead to a general decline in cognitive processing and motor performance. The goal of the current research was to establish the impact of mental fatigue on the contributions of explicit (i.e., conscious strategy) and implicit (unconscious) processes to …
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The Measurement of Mental Fatigue in Industry Using the Auditory Flicker Fusion Technique
… Flicker Fusion (AFF) technique to measure mental fatigue in industry is a new area of investigation. The Visual Flicker Fusion (VFF) technique, which is the predecessor to AFF, has received most of the attention of the researchers, even though the AFF technique appears to be more sensitive …
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Green Roof Exposure and Office Workers' Mental Health: Work-related Distress, Mental Fatigue, and Perceived Restoration
… (International Labor Organization, 2022). Mental disorders are one of the health problems that have emerged among working populations (World Health Organization, 2022). Previous empirical research and theories demonstrated that nature exposure positively impacts human health and wellbeing …
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The effect of concurrent mental and physical fatigue on physical endurance performance, strength and muscle activity: a pilot study
… focus has been dedicated to physical and mental fatigue individually, but their combined effects on physical performance are relatively underexplored. As such, the purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the concurrent effects of mental and physical fatigue on upper limb neuromechanics …
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The relationship between subjective training load and performance in open and closed skill sports
… between chronic “fitness” (positive) and acute “fatigue” (negative) functions. Subjective measures of TL, which includes sessional ratings of perceived exertion (sRPE), and differential ratings of perceived exertion, are both considered measures of internal TL. Of these, sRPE is the most common, …
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Nature and Older Adults: Green Common Spaces, Social Integration, and Important Aspects of Older Adults' Well-Being in the Inner-City
… areas of well-being included fear of crime, mental fatigue, physical health, activity participation, and morale. Results of interviews with 91 older adults (age 64 to 91) from Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago show that use of green outdoor common spaces predicted both the strength of …
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The influence of body composition and physical activity on inflamm-aging, fatigue and function in older adults
Persistent feelings of fatigue are a widespread complaint reported by older adults, and are associated with detriments in health and quality of life. Aging is also accompanied by gains in adiposity, reductions in physical activity, and loss of lean mass and physical function. This study assessed …
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BioSteel High Performance Sports Drink Improves Exercise Performance Following a Simulated Hockey Game
… energy while delaying the onset of muscular and mental fatigue”. PURPOSE: Assess the efficacy of BioSteel supplementation on anaerobic and aerobic exercise performance as well as sport-specific cognition throughout exercise. METHODS: Eleven exercise-trained men completed a simulated hockey game …
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The Stability of Attitudes Shaped by Regulatory Depletion and the Roles of Need for Cognition, Attitude Certainty, and Argument Quality
… participants were given information about the mentally fatiguing or replenishing effects of the original tasks and rated their attitudes again. The results were broadly supportive of the metacognitive approach to attitude change under depletion (Williams et al., 2010). Depleted participants …
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Slaugos priežiūros darbuotojų moterų šlapimo nelaikymo ir nuovargio sąsajų ištyrimas /
… the relationship between intensity of fatigue and prevalence of urinary incontinence forms of the nursing staff (nurses and nursing assistants) working in multifunctional hospital. Tasks of work: 1. To investigate the demographic, social, and lifestyle data of the nursing staff (women …
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Fatigue and self-management strategies among patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) receiving haemodialysis: a prospective qualitative exploration conducted in the Sultanate of Oman
… kidney disease (ESKD) receiving haemodialysis is fatigue. Fatigue impacts upon daily living activities, social functioning and psychological wellbeing, leading to poor quality of life. Across the Gulf States, up to 85% of patients receiving haemodialysis have reported fatigue. Despite this …
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Redefining mental illness: medicalization, mental healthcare, and Morita Therapy, 1868-1938
… a range of ailments. Anything from physical and mental fatigue, headaches, heart palpitations, insomnia, nausea, or even dizziness could be a symptom of shinkeishitsu. The treatment that Morita recommended for this disorder was a combination of what is now considered behavior modification …
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