Research Progress on the Interaction Effects and Its Neural Mechanisms between Physical Fatigue and Mental Fatigue_Journal of Biomedical Engineering

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ZHANGLixin , ZHANGChuncui ,  HEFeng , ZHAOXin , QIHongzhi , WANBaikun , MINGDong

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China;

Corresponding author：

HEFeng, Email: heaven@tju.edu.cn

Keywords：

physical fatigue; mental fatigue; interaction influence; neurophysiological mechanism

DOI：

10.7507/1001-5515.20150201

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Fatigue is an exhaustion state caused by prolonged physical work and mental work, which can reduce working efficiency and even cause industrial accidents. Fatigue is a complex concept involving both physiological and psychological factors. Fatigue can cause a decline of concentration and work performance and induce chronic diseases. Prolonged fatigue may endanger life safety. In most of the scenarios, physical and mental workloads co-lead operator into fatigue state. Thus, it is very important to study the interaction influence and its neural mechanisms between physical and mental fatigues. This paper introduces recent progresses on the interaction effects and discusses some research challenges and future development directions. It is believed that mutual influence between physical fatigue and mental fatigue may occur in the central nervous system. Revealing the basal ganglia function and dopamine release may be important to explore the neural mechanisms between physical fatigue and mental fatigue. Future effort is to optimize fatigue models, to evaluate parameters and to explore the neural mechanisms so as to provide scientific basis and theoretical guidance for complex task designs and fatigue monitoring.

Citation： ZHANGLixin, ZHANGChuncui, HEFeng, ZHAOXin, QIHongzhi, WANBaikun, MINGDong. Research Progress on the Interaction Effects and Its Neural Mechanisms between Physical Fatigue and Mental Fatigue. Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 2015, 32(5): 1135-1140. doi: 10.7507/1001-5515.20150201 Copy

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1. NAKAGAWA S, SUGIURA M, AKITSUKI Y, et al. Compensatory effort parallels midbrain deactivation during mental fatigue:an fMRI study[J]. PLoS One, 2013, 8(2):e56606.
2. GRANDJEAN E. Fitting the task to the man[M]. London:Taylor Francis, 1981.
3. BOURNE S K, WALCOTT B P, SHETH S A, et al. Neurological surgery:the influence of physical and mental demands on humans performing complex operations[J]. J Clin Neurosci, 2013, 20(3):342-348.
4. MEHTA R K, AGNEW M J. Influence of mental workload on muscle endurance, fatigue, and recovery during intermittent static work[J]. Eur J Appl Physiol, 2012, 112(8):2891-2902.
5. MEHTA R K, AGNEW M J. Exertion-dependent effects of physical and mental workload on physiological outcomes and task performance[J]. IIE Trans Occup Ergon Hum Factors, 2013, 1(1):3-15.
6. MEHTA R K, AGNEW M J. Effects of concurrent physical and mental demands for a short duration static task[J]. Int J Ind Ergon, 2011, 41(5):488-493.
7. MARCORA S M, STAIANO W, MANNING V. Mental fatigue impairs physical performance in humans[J]. J Appl Physiol, 2009, 106(3):857-864.
8. LORIST M M, KERNELL D, MEIJMAN T F, et al. Motor fatigue and cognitive task performance in humans[J]. J Physiol, 2002, 545(Pt 1):313-319.
9. MASHIKO T, UMEDA T, NAKAJI S. Position related analysis of the appearance of and relationship between post-match physical and mental fatigue in university rugby football players[J]. Br J Sports Med,2004,38(5):617-621.
10. SHORTZ A E, VAN DYKA S, MEHTA R K. Neural correlates of physical and mental fatigue[J]. Proc Hum Factors Ergon Soc Annu Meet, 2012, 56(1):2172-2176.
11. SHIGIHARA Y, TANAKA M, ISHII A, et al. Two types of mental fatigue affect spontaneous oscillatory brain activities in different ways[J]. Behav Brain Funct, 2013, 9:2.
12. ISHII A, TANAKA M, IWAMAE M, et al. Fatigue sensation induced by the sounds associated with mental fatigue and its related neural activities:revealed by magnetoencephalography[J]. Behav Brain Funct, 2013, 9:24.
13. TANAKA M, SHIGIHARA Y, ISHII A, et al. Effect of mental fatigue on the central nervous system:an electroencephalography study[J]. Behav Brain Funct, 2012:48.
14. ISHII A, TANAKA M, SHIGIHARA Y, et al. Neural effects of prolonged mental fatigue:a magnetoencephalography study[J]. Brain Res, 2013, 1529:105-112.
15. FABER L G, MAURITS N M, LORIST M M. Mental fatigue affects visual selective attention[J]. PLoS One, 2012, 7(10):e48073.
16. USHIYAMA J, MASAKADO Y, FUJIWARA T, et al. Contraction level-related modulation of corticomuscular coherence differs between the tibialis anterior and soleus muscles in humans[J]. J Appl Physiol, 2012, 112(8):1258-1267.
17. BARWICK F, ARNETT P, SLOBOUNOV S. EEG correlates of fatigue during administration of a neuropsychological test battery[J]. Clin Neurophysiol, 2012, 123(2):278-284.
18. ZHAO Chunlin, ZHAO Min, LIU Jianpin, et al. Electroencephalogram and electrocardiograph assessment of mental fatigue in a driving simulator[J]. Accid Anal Prev, 2012, 45:83-90.
19. AZARNOOSH M, MOTIE NASRABADI A, MOHAMMADI M R, et al. Investigation of mental fatigue through EEG signal processing based on nonlinear analysis:Symbolic dynamics[J]. Chaos Solitons Fractals, 2011, 44(12):1054-1062.
20. ZADRY H R, DAWAL S Z, TAHA Zahari. The relation between upper limb muscle and brain activity in two precision levels of repetitive light tasks[J]. Int J Occup Saf Ergon, 2011, 17(4):373-384.
21. MEHTA R K, PARASURAMAN R. Neuroergonomics:a review of applications to physical and cognitive work[J]. Front Hum Neurosci, 2013, 7:889.
22. 侯莉娟,宋争,于勇,等.运动疲劳对大脑随意运动控制的影响[J].北京体育大学学报,2012,35(3):71-74, 79.
23. LORIST M M, JOLIJ J. Trial history effects in stroop task performance are Independent of top-down control[J]. PLoS One, 2012, 7(6):e39802.
24. LAZARUS M, HUANG Zhili, LU Jun, et al. How do the basal ganglia regulate sleep-wake behavior?[J]. Trends Neurosci, 2012, 35(12):723-732.
25. HARRINGTON M E. Neurobiological studies of fatigue[J]. Prog Neurobiol, 2012, 99(2):93-105.
26. 刘瑾彦.神经递质和调质对运动性中枢疲劳影响的研究进展(综述)[J].体育学刊,2002,9(6):134-137.
27. NUNES E J, RANDALL P A, HART E E, et al. Effort-related motivational effects of the VMAT-2 inhibitor tetrabenazine:implications for animal models of the motivational symptoms of depression[J]. J Neurosci, 2013, 33(49):19120-19130.

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