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Article: Jet Lag Can Be More Than An Annoyance
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 30, 2001
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Jet lag. It's the bane of every frequent business traveler.
And now there's some evidence that jet lag doesn't just cause that
lethargic feeling as the body tries to adjust after high-speed travel
through time zones. It might also cause brain shrinkage and memory
loss.
Earlier this month, researchers from England's University of
Bristol used MRI scans to study two sets of flight attendants. They
found the group that had less time to rest between flights had
smaller right temporal lobes, which is where visual recognition and
spatial memory are developed.
Some researchers question the shrinking-brain theory. Al Lewy,
vice chairman of the department of psychiatry at Oregon Health &
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