High strain evening exercise disrupts sleep: Insights from a real-world examination of ~7-million nights
High strain exercise / sports late at night interrupts sleep.
Associations of timing of physical activity with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in a prospective cohort study
Is the afternoon the best time to exercise?
This large study has 2 important findings:
The default network is causally linked to creative thinking
This paper shows that the brain’s Default Network is causally linked to creative thinking….
The Impact of LED Lights on Human Health and Well-being: A Comprehensive Analysis
LED lights have potential drawbacks on human health, particularly sleep quality, mood, productivity and long-term health effects.
How to… have better meetings
We spend 15% of work in meetings, and managers spend as much as 50%. This interesting article from Ethan Mollick shares some ideas on how to have better meetings.
Let’s get this meeting started: Meeting lateness and actual meeting outcomes
Meetings that start late are less productive and creative
Physical activity for cognitive health promotion: An overview of the underlying neurobiological mechanisms
Exercise supports brain function in 5 ways
Sleep has many faces: The interplay of sleep and work in predicting employees’ energetic state over the course of the day.
Sleep quality predicts day-level vigour. And: The benefits of good sleep quality decrease over the course of the day, particularly when workload is high
Relearn Faster and Retain Longer: Along With Practice, Sleep Makes Perfect
Sleeping between learning sessions reduces the amount of practice needed by 50%, and ensures better long-term retention.
To Detach or Not to Detach? Two Experimental Studies on the Affective Consequences of Detaching From Work During Non-work Time
Studies demonstrate that detachment from work as well as positive thinking improves subsequent affect, highlighting the causality underlying the association between psychological detachment from work – as a core recovery experience