{"id":8727,"date":"2022-08-19T17:11:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/scientists-explain-why-taxing-mental-work-wears-you-out"},"modified":"2022-08-19T17:17:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:17:59","slug":"scientists-explain-why-taxing-mental-work-wears-you-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/scientists-explain-why-taxing-mental-work-wears-you-out","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Explain Why Taxing Mental Work Wears You Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>The researchers did not propose any fancy ways of dealing with mental fatigue, although one of them pointed out that rest and sleep are \u201cgood old recipes\u201d for tackling the problem. A team of scientists has discovered a likely explanation for why one may feel exhausted after engaging in intense cognitive work.<\/p>\n

In their study, published in the Current Biology last week, the researchers argue that intense cognitive work, when it lasts for several hours, results in the buildup of potentially toxic byproducts in the prefrontal cortex part of the human brain, which then affects a person\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n

During the course of their research, the team employed magnetic resonance spectroscopy to monitor the brain chemistry of two groups of people during a workday, with one group performing easy cognitive tasks while the other engaged in more complex mental activities.<\/p>\n

Only the latter group ended up exhibiting signs of fatigue, as well as a tendency to favor \u201coptions proposing rewards at short delay with little effort,\u201d as the news release put it.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, members of that group had higher levels of glutamate in the synapses of the prefrontal cortex, leading the researchers to suggest that the accumulation of glutamate \u201cmakes further activation of the prefrontal cortex more costly,\u201d and thus a mentally exhaustive workday makes cognitive control more difficult.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, there seems to be no fancy way to deal with this problem other than the tried and tested method that is probably as old as history itself.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. The researchers did not propose any fancy ways of dealing with mental fatigue, although one of them pointed out that rest and sleep are \u201cgood old recipes\u201d for tackling the problem. A team of scientists has discovered a likely explanation for why one may feel exhausted after engaging in intense cognitive work. 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