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20th International Symposium on Shiftwork and Working Time: biological mechanisms, recovery, and risk management in the 24-h society

scientific article published in June 2012

A diurnal type scale. Construction, consistency and validation in shift work

scientific article published on 01 December 1980

Accounting for partial sleep deprivation and cumulative sleepiness in the Three-Process Model of alertness regulation

scientific article published in April 2008

Adrenocortical and gonadal steroids during sleep deprivation

scientific article published on 01 January 1980

Age affects sleep microstructure more than sleep macrostructure

scientific article published on 17 January 2017

Age, gender and early morning highway accidents

scientific article published in June 2001

Aging and the Change in Fatigue and Sleep - A Longitudinal Study Across 8 Years in Three Age Groups

scientific article published on 8 March 2018

Aircrew fatigue in trans-Atlantic morning and evening flights

scientific article published in January 2006

Altered sleep/wake patterns and mental performance

scientific article published on 17 October 2006

Analyzing irregular working hours: lessons learned in the development of RAS 1.0--The Representation and Analysis Software

scientific article published on January 2004

Apprehension of the subsequent working day is associated with a low amount of slow wave sleep

scientific article published in April 2004

Are professional drivers less sleepy than non-professional drivers?

scientific article

Asleep at the Wheel-The Road to Addressing Drowsy Driving

scientific article published in February 2017

Assessment of a new dynamic light regimen in a nuclear power control room without windows on quickly rotating shiftworkers--effects on health, wakefulness, and circadian alignment: a pilot study

scientific article published in June 2012

Association Between Insomnia And Mortality Is Only Evident Among Long Sleepers

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Association Between Sleep Characteristics and Incident Dementia Accounting for Baseline Cognitive Status: A Prospective Population-Based Study

scientific article published on 11 July 2016

Associations Between Night Work and Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia, Sleepiness and Fatigue in a Sample of Norwegian Nurses ⬇️

scientific article published on August 7, 2013

Body temperature and sleep at different times of day.

scientific article published in January 1982

Breast cancer among shift workers: results of the WOLF longitudinal cohort study

scientific article

Bright light as a sleepiness prophylactic: a laboratory study of subjective ratings and EEG.

scientific article published in December 2003

Bright light treatment used for adaptation to night work and re-adaptation back to day life. A field study at an oil platform in the North Sea.

scientific article published in June 1999

Cardiovascular disease and shift work ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 August 1997

Change from an 8-hour shift to a 12-hour shift, attitudes, sleep, sleepiness and performance

scientific article

Changes in job strain in relation to changes in physiological state. A longitudinal study

scientific article published on June 1, 1988

Circadian variability of cystatin C, creatinine, and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in healthy men during normal sleep and after an acute shift of sleep

scientific article

Clinically diagnosed insomnia and risk of all-cause and diagnosis-specific disability pension: a nationwide cohort study

scientific article published on 31 December 2013

Clinically diagnosed insomnia and risk of all-cause and diagnosis-specific sickness absence: a nationwide Swedish prospective cohort study

scientific article

Comment on short-term variation in subjective sleepiness

scientific article

Comparing two versions of the Karolinska Sleepiness Scale (KSS).

scientific article published on February 2016

Complaints of Poor Sleep and Risk of Traffic Accidents: A Population-Based Case-Control Study

scientific article

Cost-Effectiveness of Therapist-Guided Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Stress-Related Disorders: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 13 September 2019

Criteria for self-reported quantitative sleep characteristics of individuals who sought medical help for disturbed sleep - a survey of a representative sample of the Swedish population

Cross-lagged relationships between workplace demands, control, support, and sleep problems

scientific article

Day-to-day variation in saliva cortisol--relation with sleep, stress and self-rated health.

scientific article published on 22 July 2009

Disturbed sleep and fatigue as predictors of return from long-term sickness absence

scientific article published in January 2010

Disturbed sleep in shift workers, day workers, and insomniacs

scientific article published in April 2008

Diurnal Variation of Circulating Interleukin-6 in Humans: A Meta-Analysis

scientific article

Do repeated rumble strip hits improve driver alertness?

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

Do sleep, stress, and illness explain daily variations in fatigue? A prospective study

scientific article published on 25 January 2014

Driver impairment at night and its relation to physiological sleepiness

scientific article published on 29 April 2008

Driver sleepiness and individual differences in preferences for countermeasures

scientific article

Early morning work--prevalence and relation to sleep/wake problems: a national representative survey

scientific article published in July 2010

Effect of accumulated night work during the working lifetime, on subjective health and sleep in monozygotic twins

scientific article published in March 2004

Effect of long-term sleep restriction and subsequent recovery sleep on the diurnal rhythms of white blood cell subpopulations.

scientific article published on 30 October 2014

Effect of sleep deprivation on emotional working memory

scientific article published on 08 August 2018

Effects of Mindfulness Training on Levels of Cortisol in Cancer Patients ⬇️

scientific article published on December 4, 2012

Effects of acutely displaced sleep on testosterone

scientific article published on 24 May 2005

Effects of alternating 8- and 12-hour shifts on sleep, sleepiness, physical effort and performance

scientific article

Effects of context on sleepiness self-ratings during repeated partial sleep deprivation

scientific article published in April 2008

Effects of evening exposure to electromagnetic fields emitted by 3G mobile phones on health and night sleep EEG architecture

scientific article published on 15 January 2019

Effects of late-night short-sleep on in-home polysomnography: relation to adult age and sex.

scientific article

Effects of sustained sleep restriction on mitogen-stimulated cytokines, chemokines and T helper 1/ T helper 2 balance in humans

scientific article

Effects of the implementation of an 84-hour workweek on neurobehavioral test performance and cortisol responsiveness during testing.

scientific article published in August 2003

Effects of the road environment on the development of driver sleepiness in young male drivers

scientific article published on 12 January 2018

Effects of timing of shifts on sleepiness and sleep duration.

scientific article published in December 1995

Effort-reward imbalance, sleep disturbances and fatigue

scientific article published on 13 December 2005

Endocrine responses to nocturnal eating--possible implications for night work

scientific article published in April 2003

Evidence of fatigue, disordered sleep and peripheral inflammation, but not increased brain TSPO expression, in seasonal allergy: A [11C]PBR28 PET study

scientific article

Exposure to night work: serum gastrin reactions, psychosomatic complaints and personality variables

scientific article published on 01 January 1976

Extended driving impairs nocturnal driving performances

scientific article

Fatigue in trans-Atlantic airline operations: diaries and actigraphy for two- vs. three-pilot crews.

scientific article published in June 2006

Fatigue, sleep restriction, and performance in automobile drivers: a controlled study in a natural environment.

scientific article published in May 2003

Flexible working hours, health, and well-being in Europe: some considerations from a SALTSA project

scientific article

Gastroesophageal Reflux and Sleep Disturbances: A Bidirectional Association in a Population-Based Cohort Study, The HUNT Study

scientific article published on 03 May 2016

Habitual sleep patterns and the distribution of body mass index: cross-sectional findings among Swedish men and women

scientific article published on 29 July 2014

Having to stop driving at night because of dangerous sleepiness--awareness, physiology and behaviour

scientific article

Hormonal changes in satisfied and dissatisfied shift workers across a shift cycle

scientific article published on 25 July 2003

Impaired alertness and performance driving home from the night shift: a driving simulator study

scientific article published in March 2005

Impaired sleep after bedtime stress and worries

scientific article published on 6 August 2007

In-car countermeasures open window and music revisited on the real road: popular but hardly effective against driver sleepiness

scientific article

In-car nocturnal blue light exposure improves motorway driving: a randomized controlled trial

scientific article

Increased risk of ischaemic heart disease in shift workers

scientific article published on 01 July 1986

Individual differences in the diurnal cortisol response to stress

scientific article published in January 2004

Individual, situational and lifestyle factors related to shift work tolerance among nurses who are new to and experienced in night work

scientific article published on 31 July 2012

Influence of flexibility and variability of working hours on health and well-being

scientific article published in January 2006

Insomnia in sweden: a population-based survey

scientific article

Insufficient sleep predicts clinical burnout ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2012

Intrinsic brain connectivity after partial sleep deprivation in young and older adults: results from the Stockholm Sleepy Brain study

scientific article published on 25 August 2017

Intrinsic brain connectivity after partial sleep deprivation in young and older adults: results from the Stockholm Sleepy Brain study

Less effective executive functioning after one night's sleep deprivation

scientific article published in March 2005

Leukocyte telomere length and hippocampus volume: a meta-analysis

scientific article

Lifestyle Factors Are Important Contributors to Subjective Memory Complaints among Patients without Objective Memory Impairment or Positive Neurochemical Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease

scholarly article published in Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extra

Manifest sleepiness and the spectral content of the EEG during shift work

scientific article published in June 1991

Melatonin Treatment Effects on Adolescent Students' Sleep Timing and Sleepiness in a Placebo-Controlled Crossover Study ⬇️

scientific article published on September 24, 2012

Mental fatigue, work and sleep

scientific article

Microarousals during sleep are associated with increased levels of lipids, cortisol, and blood pressure

scientific article published in November 2004

Mobile phone exposure and spatial memory

scientific article published in January 2009

Modelling fatigue and the use of fatigue models in work settings ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Mood impairment is stronger in young than in older adults after sleep deprivation

scientific article published on 25 December 2018

Morning work: effects of early rising on sleep and alertness

scientific article published on 01 March 1997

Night driving, season, and the risk of highway accidents

scientific article published in June 2001

Night work and breast cancer in women: a Swedish cohort study

scientific article

Night work as a risk factor for future cause-specific disability pension: A prospective twin cohort study in Sweden

scientific article published on 16 November 2017

Night work as a risk factor of future disability pension due to musculoskeletal diagnoses: a prospective cohort study of Swedish twins

scientific article published on 19 June 2017

Novel biochemical markers of psychosocial stress in women

scientific article

Observer rated sleepiness and real road driving: an explorative study

scientific article

Overtime work and its effects on sleep, sleepiness, cortisol and blood pressure in an experimental field study

scientific article published in August 2006

Perception of sleepiness before falling asleep

scientific article published on 27 July 2010

Periodic self-rostering in shift work: correspondence between objective work hours, work hour preferences (personal fit), and work schedule satisfaction

scientific article published on 15 June 2012

Playing a violent television game affects heart rate variability

scientific article published on 29 October 2008

Playing a violent television game does not affect saliva cortisol.

scientific article published on 14 April 2009

Police officers attitude to different shift systems: association with age, present shift schedule, health and sleep/wake complaints

scientific article published on 20 February 2008

Poor sleep increases the prospective risk for recurrent events in middle-aged women with coronary disease. The Stockholm Female Coronary Risk Study

scientific article published in February 2003

Positivity Effect and Working Memory Performance Remains Intact in Older Adults After Sleep Deprivation

article by Andreas Gerhardsson et al published 2019 in Frontiers in Psychology

Predicting changes in sleep complaints from baseline values and changes in work demands, work control, and work preoccupation--the WOLF-project

scientific article

Predicting long-term sickness absence from sleep and fatigue

scientific article published in December 2007

Predicting road crashes from a mathematical model of alertness regulation--The Sleep/Wake Predictor

scientific article published on 22 April 2008

Predicting sleep quality from stress and prior sleep--a study of day-to-day covariation across six weeks

scientific article published on 22 May 2012

Predictions from the three-process model of alertness

scientific article published in March 2004

Predictors for Development of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness in Women: A Population-Based 10-Year Follow-Up

scientific article

Prevalence of night eating in obese and nonobese twins

scientific article

Prevalence of risk factors for coronary artery disease among day and shift workers

scientific article published on 01 October 1988

Prospective study of job stress and risk of infections in Swedish adults

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Psychosocial stress and health problems: Health in Sweden: The National Public Health Report 2012. Chapter 6

scientific article published on December 1, 2012

Psychosocial stress and impaired sleep.

scientific article published on December 2006

Psychosocial work demands and physical workload decrease with ageing in blue-collar and white-collar workers: a prospective study based on the SLOSH cohort

scientific article published on 17 September 2019

Reaction of sleepiness indicators to partial sleep deprivation, time of day and time on task in a driving simulator--the DROWSI project

scientific article published on 28 December 2009

Real driving at night--predicting lane departures from physiological and subjective sleepiness

scientific article published on 8 July 2014

Reciprocal relations between work stress and insomnia symptoms: A prospective study

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

Relations between performance and subjective ratings of sleepiness during a night awake.

scientific article published in April 1994

Relationship between shift work and the onset of rheumatoid arthritis

scientific article published on 29 August 2017

Relationship between sleep characteristics and markers of inflammation in Swedish women from the general population

scientific article published on 22 May 2020

Relationships Between Questionnaire Ratings of Sleep Quality and Polysomnography in Healthy Adults

scientific article

Rumble strips in centre of the lane and the effect on sleepy drivers

scientific article

Searching for the countermeasure of night-shift sleepiness

scientific article published in January 2006

Self-reported health and well-being amongst night security guards: a comparison with the working population

scientific article published in May 1991

Shift work and cardiovascular disease

scientific article published on 01 December 1984

Shift work and cognitive aging: a longitudinal study

scientific article published on 31 March 2017

Shift work and disturbed sleep/wakefulness

scientific article

Shift work and mortality

scientific article published in January 2004

Shift work and sleep disorders

scientific article published in January 2005

Shift work at young age is associated with increased risk for multiple sclerosis

scientific article published on 17 October 2011

Shift work influences multiple sclerosis risk

scientific article published on 19 February 2015

Shift work, severe sleepiness and safety

scientific article

Shift-related sleep problems vary according to work schedule

scientific article

Shiftwork and myocardial infarction: a case-control study

scientific article published on January 1999

Short sleep-poor sleep? A polysomnographic study in a large population-based sample of women

scientific article published on 04 January 2019

Short- and long-term mortality following hypnotic use

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Simple reaction time, duration of driving and sleep deprivation in young versus old automobile drivers

scientific article

Sleep Duration, Mortality, and Heredity-A Prospective Twin Study

scientific article

Sleep Loss and Fatigue in Shift Work and Shift Work Disorder

scientific article

Sleep and sleepiness in relation to stress and displaced work hours

scientific article published on 21 May 2007

Sleep and sleepiness in young individuals with high burnout scores

scientific article

Sleep and sleepiness: impact of entering or leaving shiftwork--a prospective study

scientific article published in July 2010

Sleep apnea, disability pension and cause-specific mortality: a nationwide register linkage study

scientific article published on 18 May 2017

Sleep characteristics and cardiovascular events in a large Swedish cohort

scientific article published on 4 April 2013

Sleep disturbance and work-related mental strain: A national prospective cohort study of the prediction of subsequent long-term sickness absence, disability pension and mortality

scientific article published on 20 March 2020

Sleep disturbances, work stress and work hours: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published in September 2002

Sleep duration and mortality - Does weekend sleep matter?

scientific article published on 22 May 2018

Sleep duration and survival percentiles across categories of physical activity

scientific article

Sleep duration, mortality and the influence of age.

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

Sleep homeostasis during repeated sleep restriction and recovery: support from EEG dynamics

scientific article published on February 2009

Sleep in a Truck Berth ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 August 1997

Sleep length as a function of morning shift-start time in irregular shift schedules for train drivers: self-rated health and individual differences

scientific article published in April 2008

Sleep loss and accidents—Work hours, life style, and sleep pathology

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Sleep physiology in recovery from burnout

scientific article published on 21 August 2009

Sleep polysomnography and reported stress across 6 weeks

scientific article

Sleep restriction and SWS-suppression: effects on daytime alertness and night-time recovery

scientific article published in September 1994

Sleep restriction caused impaired emotional regulation without detectable brain activation changes - a functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Sleep restriction caused impaired emotional regulation without detectable brain activation changes-a functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Sleep, alertness and alertness management among commercial airline pilots on short-haul and long-haul flights

scientific article published on 2 November 2016

Sleep, sleepiness, and neurobehavioral performance while on watch in a simulated 4 hours on/8 hours off maritime watch system.

scientific article published on 23 July 2013

Sleep-related eye symptoms and their potential for identifying driver sleepiness

scientific article published on 26 May 2014

Sleepiness and performance in response to repeated sleep restriction and subsequent recovery during semi-laboratory conditions

scientific article published in April 2008

Sleepiness and performance of professional drivers in a truck simulator--comparisons between day and night driving

scientific article published on 01 March 1996

Sleepiness and prediction of driver impairment in simulator studies using a Cox proportional hazard approach

scientific article published in May 2010

Sleepiness and shift work: field studies.

scientific article published on January 1982

Sleepiness at the wheel across Europe: a survey of 19 countries

scientific article published on June 2015

Sleepiness in long distance truck driving: an ambulatory EEG study of night driving

scientific article

Sleepiness, Long Distance Commuting and Night Work as Predictors of Driving Performance ⬇️

scientific article published on September 21, 2012

Sleepiness, sleep duration, and human social activity: An investigation into bidirectionality using longitudinal time-use data

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Sleeping during the day: effects on the 24-h patterns of IGF-binding protein 1, insulin, glucose, cortisol, and growth hormone

scientific article published on 29 June 2010

Sleepy driving on the real road and in the simulator--A comparison

scientific article

Slow wave activity and prior sleep/wakefulness on an irregular schedule

scientific article published on 01 June 1992

Snoring and progression of coronary artery disease: The Stockholm Female Coronary Angiography Study

scientific article published in November 2004

Snoring and the metabolic syndrome in women ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2003

Spectral analysis of sleep electroencephalography in rotating three-shift work.

scientific article published on October 1991

Spinal pain--good sleep matters: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Stability of Day and Night Sleep-A Two-Year Follow-Up of EEG Parameters in Three-Shift Workers ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 1991

Stress vulnerability and the effects of moderate daily stress on sleep polysomnography and subjective sleepiness

scientific article published on 27 July 2012

Subjective health perception in healthy young men changes in response to experimentally restricted sleep and subsequent recovery sleep

scientific article

Subjective sleepiness and accident risk avoiding the ecological fallacy

scientific article published in June 2006

Subjective sleepiness is a sensitive indicator of insufficient sleep and impaired waking function

scientific article published on 17 April 2014

Subjective sleepiness, simulated driving performance and blink duration: examining individual differences

scientific article

Suppression of sleepiness and melatonin by bright light exposure during breaks in night work

scientific article published in March 2004

Thank god it's Friday - sleep improved

scientific article published on 20 April 2017

The alerting effect of hitting a rumble strip--a simulator study with sleepy drivers

scientific article

The characteristics of sleepiness during real driving at night--a study of driving performance, physiology and subjective experience

scientific article

The circadian variation of experimentally displaced sleep

scientific article published on 01 January 1981

The daily variation in sleepiness and its relation to the preceding sleep episode--a prospective study across 42 days of normal living

scientific article

The effect of a transient immune activation on subjective health perception in two placebo controlled randomised experiments

The effect of daylight versus darkness on driver sleepiness: a driving simulator study

scientific article

The effect of sleep restriction on empathy for pain: An fMRI study in younger and older adults

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

The effect of violent and nonviolent video games on heart rate variability, sleep, and emotions in adolescents with different violent gaming habits

scientific article published in May 2013

The effects of 884 MHz GSM wireless communication signals on headache and other symptoms: an experimental provocation study

scientific article published in April 2008

The effects of a short daytime nap after restricted night sleep

scientific article published on 01 September 1996

The effects of driving situation on sleepiness indicators after sleep loss: a driving simulator study

scientific article published in August 2009

The future of work hours--the European view

scientific article

The impact of driver sleepiness on fixation-related brain potentials

scientific article published on 12 December 2019

The impact of free-time activities on sleep, recovery and well-being

scientific article published on 4 February 2008

The impact of junior doctors' worktime arrangements on their fatigue and well-being

scientific article published on 23 April 2010

The impact of reduced worktime on sleep and perceived stress - a group randomized intervention study using diary data

scientific article

The impact of work time control on physicians' sleep and well-being

scientific article published on 29 September 2014

The pattern of slow wave activity in spontaneously occurring long sleep

scientific article published in March 1992

The relation between polysomnography and subjective sleep and its dependence on age - poor sleep may become good sleep

scientific article published on 27 April 2016

The role of sleep disturbances in the longitudinal relationship between psychosocial working conditions, measured by work demands and support, and depression

scientific article

Tolerance to shift work-how does it relate to sleep and wakefulness?

scientific article published on 11 November 2003

Total workload and recovery in relation to worktime reduction: a randomised controlled intervention study with time-use data

scientific article published on 28 November 2017

Trends in the risk of accidents and injuries and their implications for models of fatigue and performance.

scientific article published on March 2004

Use of subjective and physiological indicators of sleepiness to predict performance during a vigilance task

scientific article published on August 2007

Using the Karolinska Sleep Questionnaire to identify obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in a sleep clinic population

scientific article published in October 2014

Validating and extending the three process model of alertness in airline operations

scientific article

Validation of the Karolinska sleepiness scale against performance and EEG variables

scientific article published on 6 May 2006

Variation in sleepiness during early morning shifts: a mixed model approach to an experimental field study of train drivers

scientific article published in January 2004

Wakefulness in young and elderly subjects driving at night in a car simulator

scientific article published on 24 June 2009

What work schedule characteristics constitute a problem to the individual? A representative study of Swedish shift workers

scientific article published in October 2016

Work and Sleep--A Prospective Study of Psychosocial Work Factors, Physical Work Factors, and Work Scheduling

scientific article published on July 2015

Work and rest sleep schedules of 227 European truck drivers

scientific article published in November 2002

Work at night and breast cancer--report on evidence-based options for preventive actions

scientific article published on 20 February 2012

Work load and work hours in relation to disturbed sleep and fatigue in a large representative sample

scientific article published in July 2002

Work organisation and unintentional sleep: results from the WOLF study

scientific article

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