Because systemic drugs cross the placental barrier, they can also affect the newborn, causing respiratory depression, decreased alertness, and abnormal reflexes.
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].
Results: FNZ led to psychomotor impairments and decreased alertness and attention; these effects were consistent with previous findings.
Temporal abstinence from caffeine in habitual users results in the well-characterized withdrawal syndrome, consisting mainly of headache, fatigue, tiredness and decreased alertness.
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.
They include drowsiness, dizziness, and decreased alertness and concentration.
It is also associated with a number of concerns related to health, safety, and economic productivity: generally, the early afternoon, after most people have eaten lunch, corresponds to decreased work performance, decreased alertness, and a higher incidence of motor vehicle accidents.
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].
On arrival, neurologic examination revealed decreased alertness, dysarthria, and ataxia.
