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Mental fatigue leads to loss of self-control by putting brain areas to sleep, finds study

by IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Prolonged mental fatigue can wear down brain areas crucial for an individual’s ability to self-control, and can cause people to behave more aggressively. In a new multidisciplinary study published in the PNAS, a group of researchers from neuroscience and economics at the IMT School of Advanced Studies...

Music intervention and mindfulness reduces the effect of mental fatigue
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Music intervention and mindfulness reduces the effect of mental fatigue

by University of Southern Denmark Mental fatigue is a psychobiological state caused by prolonged periods of demanding cognitive activity which results in slower reaction times and attention deficits. It affects the ability to focus and impacts the capacity to make optimal decisions during a given task. Mental fatigue is often responsible for accidents in traffic...