Publications by authors named "Elisabeth M Kryskow"
Article Synopsis
- Sleep deprivation significantly increases fatigue-related performance issues, leading to a greater risk of accidents and health problems in individuals, particularly in high-stakes environments like the military.
- A study assessed the effects of 26 hours of sleep deprivation on attention and visual tracking abilities in 87 healthy Army personnel using specialized tests to measure eye movements and reaction times.
- Results showed notable declines in attention accuracy and increases in reaction times and gaze error variability, suggesting that these performance measures can effectively indicate fatigue levels and potential readiness for demanding tasks.
When a moving target is tracked visually, spatial and temporal predictions are used to circumvent the neural delay required for the visuomotor processing. In particular, the internally generated predictions must be synchronized with the external stimulus during continuous tracking. We examined the utility of a circular visual-tracking paradigm for assessment of predictive timing, using normal human subjects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe hippocampal formation is a highly plastic brain region that is sensitive to stress. It receives extensive noradrenergic projections, and noradrenaline is released in the hippocampus in response to stressor exposure. The hippocampus expresses particularly high levels of the alpha(1D) adrenergic receptor (ADR) and we have previously demonstrated that alpha(1d) ADR mRNA expression in the rat hippocampus is modulated by corticosterone.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF