Long working hours affect people’s emotional health – | Iranian and world news

The new finding has been published in an online journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine, according to . According to the researchers, working excessively creates “Neuroroadaptive Changes” that may affect one’s cognitive and emotional health.

It has previously been found that long working hours were associated with increased risk of heart disease, metabolic disorders and mental health challenges. The International Labor Organization also estimates that over -death toll is more than 6,000 people per year.

Although the behavioral and psychological consequences of work are overly understandable, its infrastructure neurological mechanisms and anatomical changes have not yet been sought.

To this end, the researchers used structural analysis of brain volume to compare the effect of over -functioning on certain areas of the brain of health care staff that normally work more than 4 hours a week.

They collected their desired data from Grocs research and MRI scans to investigate the impact of working conditions on the brain structure. Participants in the GROCS research were also asked to record additional MRI scans and the final analysis included 4 people. Most of them worked in the health care sector, more precisely 2 participants in overtime week, and 4 people only worked on the usual hours.

People who opened longer hours each week were significantly younger, spent less time working, and were more educated than those who operated only in standard hours. The distinction between the brain volume of individuals was evaluated using a neurotransmitter technique called VBM that examines the differences between different areas of the brain at the gray matter level, and then analyzed based on Atlas based on predefined sources to identify and label structures in brain photos.

Comparison analysis of the findings showed that there were more changes in sectors related to the performance of the brain and the emotional regulation of people who work 2 hours or more per weeks than those who work in standard hours.

Atlas -based analysis, for example, showed a 5 % increase in the volume of the middle forehead in people with long working hours compared to people working at normal hours. This part of the brain plays an important role in various cognitive functions. This section is related to topics, active memory and language processing.