Mental Fatigue - Research News and Information

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Mental fatigue alters the pattern and increases the volume of cerebral activation required for a motor task in multiple sclerosis patients with fatigue.

Apr 2008 Fatigue is one of the most disabling symptoms in multiple sclerosis (MS) and there is increasing evidence it has a central origin. Our aim was to assess the impact of mental fatigue on motor task-related cerebral... Read more...

Characteristics of fatigue in panic disorder patients.

Apr 2008 It was suggested that fatigue is one of characteristics of panic disorder. Fatigue was assessed in 360 patients with panic disorder using the Japanese version of the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI-J). The... Read more...

Objective measurement of fatigue following traumatic brain injury.

26 Jan 2008 OBJECTIVES: To quantify posttraumatic brain injury (post-TBI) mental fatigue objectively by documenting changes in performance on neuropsychological tests as a result of sustained mental effort and to examine the... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Fatigue'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Improving sleep hygiene. 9 Jun 2008
• Mental fatigue alters the pattern and increases the volume of cerebral activation required for a motor task in multiple sclerosis patients with fatigue. Apr 2008
• Characteristics of fatigue in panic disorder patients. Apr 2008
• Objective measurement of fatigue following traumatic brain injury. 26 Jan 2008
• Learning in patient-based education sessions: a prospective evaluation. 2008
• Can we use our time more wisely? 2008
• "Denkfaulheit" in frontotemporal dementia: a preliminary analysis. 2008
• A medical definition of fatigue in multiple sclerosis. 2008
• Effect of dried-bonito broth on mental fatigue and mental task performance in subjects with a high fatigue score. 5 Dec 2007
• Correlation of psychological and physical symptoms with chronically elevated cytokine levels associated with a common immune dysregulation. 29 Sep 2007
• Improving sleep hygiene of medical interns: can the sleep, alertness, and fatigue education in residency program help? 10 Sep 2007
• Working hours and mental and physical fatigue in Japanese workers. Sep 2007
• [Effect of mental fatigue induced by repeated continuous calculation tasks on event-related brain potential (P300)] 30 Aug 2007
• The relation between cumulative fatigue and marital status in Japanese workers. 21 Aug 2007
• A feature selection method for multilevel mental fatigue EEG classification. 2 Jul 2007
• Long-term evaluation of mental fatigue by Maastricht Questionnaire in patients with OSAS treated with CPAP. 13 Jun 2007
• ["Brain fatigue"--an invisible disability with possible severe problems. Disturbed glutamate regulation can explain reduced filtration of information] May 2007
• Functional neuroimaging correlates of mental fatigue induced by cognition among chronic fatigue syndrome patients and controls. 4 Apr 2007
• [Effects of long term mental arithmetic on physiological parameters, subjective indices and task performances] 25 Mar 2007
• [Autonomic functional changes in students during adaptation to mental work loads] 7 Mar 2007

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Technical information about 'Mental Fatigue'

Definition: Fatigue arising in consequence of mental effort.

Descriptor UI: D005222

Alternative terms: Mental Fatigue; Fatigue, Mental;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F01.145.126.937; F02.463.467;

Online Note: use MENTAL FATIGUE to search FATIGUE, MENTAL 1966-94

History Note: 95; was FATIGUE, MENTAL 1963-94