Study reveals long-term shift work may damage brain

A large-scale study demonstrates that working antisocial hours is strongly associated with brain damage and cognitive malfunction.

The study warns that long-term shift work accelerates the aging of the brain and dulls intellectual ability.

Scientists say that while the body’s internal clock is designed to be active in the day and asleep at night, working against the body clock leads to damaging effects on the body. 

The study showed that a decade of shift work aged the brain by more than six years, according to the study report which appeared in the journal, Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

The recent study once again shows the importance of sleep and the effect sleep deficiency can have on the brain.