Sentence examples for decreased alertness from inspiring English sources
Results: FNZ led to psychomotor impairments and decreased alertness and attention; these effects were consistent with previous findings.
They include a relaxed feeling, relief from pain and anxiety, decreased alertness, respiratory depression (slowed breathing), impaired coordination, constricted pupils, nausea, and constipation.
Because systemic drugs cross the placental barrier, they can also affect the newborn, causing respiratory depression, decreased alertness, and abnormal reflexes.
Laboratory findings indicate that scheduled napping promotes waking function after normal sleep at night, and also counteracts decreased alertness and performance under conditions of sleep deprivation.
In the remaining cases, slips of attention (i.e. skilled-based errors), associated with decreased alertness and physical fatigue, were the most common unsafe acts leading to accidents and incidents.
Temporal abstinence from caffeine in habitual users results in the well-characterized withdrawal syndrome, consisting mainly of headache, fatigue, tiredness and decreased alertness.
"The preponderance of evidence from psychological experiments is that alcohol decreases alertness and decreases efficiency for performing tasks," E. M. Jellinek has reported.
It is also known that lights from electronic devices reduce melatonin levels, increase alertness at night, delay the circadian clock, and decrease alertness the next morning [22].
Several of these studies further showed that when subjects focus on a particular direction, their attentional resources appear to be distributed in a gradient, with decreasing alertness when moving away from the attended direction [28], [29].
Short-term consequences of sleep debt can include decreased daytime alertness, impaired memory and cognitive ability, and more than double the risk of sustaining an occupational injury.
Sleep deprivation and the subsequent decreased mental alertness and manual dexterity have been hypothesized to be responsible for these worse surgical outcomes during out-of-hours operating [10, 11].
