STUDIES ON AUDITORY FATIGUE

Pharmacological studies on fatigue. I.

Considerable investigation has been done as to whether or not a particular drug is effective for recovery of an animal after it has become exhausted. Experiments have included screening antifatigue effect on animals, but applications have not been generally established. Effects of drugs on psychological fatigue as seen in man can hardly be inferred from tests on animals. Even physiological effe...

Effects of Several Mental Tasks on Auditory Fatigue.

Auditory Fatigue: Influence of Mental Factors.

Quantitative Assessment of Muscle Fatigue for FES Research Studies

Background: Muscle fatigue is an important issue in neuromuscular rehabilitation. Better control of this phenomenon would result in better prevention of its consequent physiological damages.Objective: To provide a mathematical representation of muscle fatigue as a function of time.Methods: We conducted this study by combining the EMG-based estimation methods of muscle activation with the availa...

[Studies on fatigue and shift work in nurses].

Effects of shift work on physiological parameters and autonomic nervous-adrenal system were studied on six hospital nurses. Their body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, fluctuation in ECG R-R intervals, serum catecholamines and cortisol, and subjective fatigue ratings before and after day, evening and night shift were determined. Furthermore, mean heart rates, walk steps, estimated energ...