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Created: Oct 4, , IST. Most of us already seem to know the time when our brain is supposedly most active and alert. It has to be morning, right? From religious texts, to medical treatises, have all been ranting since times immemorial that morning is the best time to do the toughest tasks as your brain is most active then. But being active is different than being productive. Maybe the first few hours right after you get up are when you get the best ideas and are most creative.
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However, the morning is still a very important part of the day. A study of Japanese workers found that we respond better to stressful events in the morning. The workers were presented with a stress test either two hours or 10 hours after waking up, to represent performing a stressful task either first thing in the working day or last thing before leaving the office.
Without the release of cortisol, important parts of the fight-or-flight response do not happen. Cortisol regulates blood pressure, for example, and also increases blood sugar levels. The hormone also restores balance after a stressful event, which means that you will be better able to settle down again after a high-pressure morning. If it occurred in the evening, it might play on your mind. Repeated stressful events late in the day might also result in long-term health issues like obesity and type 2 diabetes, as well as depression, warns Yamanaka.
There are fundamental differences in brain function between night owls and early birds, and night owls may have impaired function during regular work-day hours, according to a new study published Thursday in the academic journal "Sleep. Researchers at the University of Birmingham looked at the brain function among other things of 38 people who were categorized as either night owls, who had an average bedtime of a.
Participants underwent MRI scans, were asked to complete a series of tasks and participated in testing sessions at different times during the day between 8 a. Overall, researchers found that night owls had lower resting brain connectivity in ways that are associated with poorer attention, slower reactions and increased sleepiness throughout the hours of a typical work day.
Meanwhile, brain connectivity in the regions of the brain that can predict better performance and lower sleepiness were significantly higher in larks at all times, "suggesting that the resting state brain connectivity of night owls is impaired throughout the whole day.
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