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<blockquote data-quote="TechGrrl" data-source="post: 827960" data-attributes="member: 4932"><p>For all you "tough guys" out there making fun of shift work:</p><p>It is a FACT that you can force your body to work 24-48 hours straight. It is also a FACT that your BRAIN doesn't react the same way. It shuts down higher brain functions after it becomes fatigued, and it takes a certain amount of time to recover, and there is NOTHING (short of illegal drugs) that will change that. Forcing air traffic controllers to work rotating shifts that don't allow their body clocks time to adjust is plain stupid. Their jobs involve high level brain activity to juggle the planes.</p><p>There has been a ton of research into the effect of sleep patterns on brain activity and intellectual effectiveness. To ignore this is folly. Even assuming the ATC/pilot/truck driver doesn't fall asleep, their intellect and judgement is adversely affected.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TechGrrl, post: 827960, member: 4932"] For all you "tough guys" out there making fun of shift work: It is a FACT that you can force your body to work 24-48 hours straight. It is also a FACT that your BRAIN doesn't react the same way. It shuts down higher brain functions after it becomes fatigued, and it takes a certain amount of time to recover, and there is NOTHING (short of illegal drugs) that will change that. Forcing air traffic controllers to work rotating shifts that don't allow their body clocks time to adjust is plain stupid. Their jobs involve high level brain activity to juggle the planes. There has been a ton of research into the effect of sleep patterns on brain activity and intellectual effectiveness. To ignore this is folly. Even assuming the ATC/pilot/truck driver doesn't fall asleep, their intellect and judgement is adversely affected. [/QUOTE]
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