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·December 7, 2023·4 min read

How Shift Work Disrupts Sleep

A new study reveals significant sleep disturbances among shift workers. The research, involving over 37,000 participants, indicates that regular night shifts lead to the highest prevalence of sleep disorders, with 51% of night shift workers reporting at least one sleep disorder.

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·March 9, 2022·4 min read

Shift Work Linked to Poorer Working Memory and Slower Mental Processing Speed

Pooled data reveals shift workers perform worse on tasks associated with attention, working memory, and information processing than non-shift workers.

This shows a man working on some rail tracks at night

Featured Genetics Neuroscience

·June 1, 2021·3 min read

Early Bird or Night Owl? Study Links Shift Worker Sleep to ‘Chronotype’

Findings of a new study could help to design better strategies to improve sleep in workers with atypical work schedules.

This diagram shows how night shift alters dna and increases cancer risk

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·March 8, 2021·6 min read

How Night Shift Work Increases Cancer Risk

Night-shifts destroy the natural 24-hour biological rhythm in the activity of certain cancer-related genes, resulting in more vulnerability to DNA damage and causing a mistiming in the DNA repair mechanisms in shift workers.

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·February 22, 2021·3 min read

A Sleep Disorder Associated With Shift Work May Affect Gene Function

Study sheds light on DNA methylation related to sleep deprivation in those with shift-work disorder.

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·July 9, 2018·4 min read

How Shift Work Disrupts Metabolism

Researchers report metabolic disruptions often seen in shift workers are not influenced by the brain's circadian rhythm, but by peripheral oscillators in the liver, gut and pancreas.

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·July 6, 2018·4 min read

Gene Linked to Job Related Exhaustion in Shift Workers Increases Alzheimer’s Risk

Researchers report a variation of the MTNR1A gene is linked to an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in older people. The same gene has previously been implicated in reduced tolerance to shift work in the aging population.