mental fatigue

New Delhi, March 6: Examination stress is taking its toll on the health of children, who are popping memory-enhancing pills, smoking, eating junk food and trying every other possible

A new study reveals that 30 percent of students from Class 9 to 12 resort to cheating because of competitive pressure and fear of failure. Surprisingly, even a higher percentage of exam-giving students seek relaxation in chatting with friends on the computer, which actually works reverse and causes more exhaustion.

New York, February 27:A new research has found that mental fatigue can impair a person's exercise performance. Researchers have found that mentally fatigued people reach physical exhaustion sooner than those who have a rested mind.

The novel research, conducted by British researchers, shows why it is sometimes so hard to work out.

In their study, the researchers’ team, including Samuele M. Marcora, Walter Staiano and Victoria Manning of Bangor University, Wales, the United Kingdom, discovered that participants who performed a mentally tiresome task just before exercising reached exhaustion much more sooner than they did the same exercise when mentally rested.