Waking up is the hardest thing I do all day: Sleep inertia and sleep drunkenness

LM Trotti - Sleep medicine reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
The transition from sleep to wake is marked by sleep inertia, a distinct state that is
measurably different from wakefulness and manifests as performance impairments and …

Interactions of cortisol, testosterone, and resistance training: influence of circadian rhythms

LD Hayes, GF Bickerstaff, JS Baker - Chronobiology international, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Diurnal variation of sports performance usually peaks in the late afternoon, coinciding with
increased body temperature. This circadian pattern of performance may be explained by the …

Sleep inertia: current insights

CJ Hilditch, AW McHill - Nature and science of sleep, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Sleep inertia, or the grogginess felt upon awakening, is associated with significant cognitive
performance decrements that dissipate as time awake increases. This impairment in …

A 30-minute, but not a 10-minute nighttime nap is associated with sleep inertia

CJ Hilditch, SA Centofanti, J Dorrian, S Banks - Sleep, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Objectives: To assess sleep inertia following 10-min and 30-min naps during
a simulated night shift. Methods: Thirty-one healthy adults (aged 21–35 y; 18 females) …

A review of short naps and sleep inertia: do naps of 30 min or less really avoid sleep inertia and slow-wave sleep?

CJ Hilditch, J Dorrian, S Banks - Sleep medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Objectives Napping is a widely used countermeasure to sleepiness and impaired
performance caused by sleep loss and circadian pressure. Sleep inertia, the period of …

Rise and shine: The use of polychromatic short‐wavelength‐enriched light to mitigate sleep inertia at night following awakening from slow‐wave sleep

CJ Hilditch, LR Wong, NG Bathurst… - Journal of Sleep …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sleep inertia is the brief period of performance impairment and reduced alertness
experienced after waking, especially from slow‐wave sleep. We assessed the efficacy of …

Safety implications of fatigue and sleep inertia for emergency services personnel

D Dawson, SA Ferguson, GE Vincent - Sleep medicine reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Emergency services present a unique operational environment for the management of
fatigue and sleep inertia. Communities request and often expect the provision of emergency …

Time to wake up: reactive countermeasures to sleep inertia

CJ Hilditch, J Dorrian, S Banks - Industrial health, 2016 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Sleep inertia is the period of impaired performance and grogginess experienced after
waking. This period of impairment is of concern to workers who are on-call, or nap during …

Chronic sleep restriction greatly magnifies performance decrements immediately after awakening

AW McHill, JT Hull, DA Cohen, W Wang, CA Czeisler… - Sleep, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Study Objectives Sleep inertia, subjectively experienced as grogginess felt upon
awakening, causes cognitive performance impairments that can require up to 1.5 hr to …

Circadian and homeostatic variation in sustained attention

P Valdez, C Ramírez, A García… - Chronobiology …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Human performance is modulated by circadian rhythms and homeostatic changes. Changes
in efficiency in the performance of many tasks might be produced by variation in a basic …