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Stories about: alertness

How Your Brain Remains Alert A group of investigators at the University of California in Davis (UCD) announces the discovery of a series of mechanisms that allows our brains to remain alert, by adapting itself to cues our environment throws at us. These cues include natural events, social situations, language, emotions experienced by others an... 13 January 2012 09:39 GMT Brief Light Flashes Improve Nighttime Alertness According to new research presented today at the 24th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (SLEEP 2010), it would appear that exposing people to intense, very short flashes of light does wonder to improve their nighttime alertness. The work, presented in San Antonia, Texas, highlights the... 7 June 2010 07:03 GMT Blue LEDs Can Reduce Fatigue Or at least that's what U.S. researchers say. Night drivers often lose their alertness because of fatigue, however blue lights, or blue light-emitting diodes, are believed to fool the brain into believing that it is morning, when in fact it is the middle of the night, thus resetting the body's natural clock... 18 March 2008 11:55 GMT