ArticleBrain sciences2022
Occupational Burnout Is Linked with Inefficient Executive Functioning, Elevated Average Heart Rate, and Decreased Physical Activity in Daily Life - Initial Evidence from Teaching Professionals.
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- Biological Markers of Burnout Severity: A Systematic Review.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2026Pooled it
- Chronic stress in relation to clinical burnout: an integrative scoping review of definitions and measurement approaches.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Exploring the impact of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation in subjects with and without burnout: Potential benefits for executive function and neural processing.Neuroimage. Reports · 2025Article
- Executive function deficits mediate the relationship between employees' ADHD and job burnout.AIMS public health · 2024Article
- Unified and distinct cognitive control deficits in adolescents with cognitive disengagement syndrome and learning burnout.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Job burnout, cognitive functioning, and Brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression among hospital Mexican nurses.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Exploring Physical and Biological Manifestations of Burnout and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Healthcare Workers: A Scoping Review Protocol.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2023Article
- Altered neural processes underlying executive function in occupational burnout-Basis for a novel EEG biomarker.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Lateral prefrontal cortex thickness is associated with stress but not cognitive fatigue in exhaustion disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
Burnout is becoming a global pandemic jeopardizing brain health, with a huge impact on quality of life, available workforce, and the economy. Knowledge of the impact of burnout on cognition, physiology, and physical activity (PA) in daily life allows for an improved understanding of the health consequences and everyday ramifications of burnout. Twenty-eight volunteers participated in a three-day recording of daily physiology and PA, including heart rate (HR) and daily steps, with a wearable device. They filled in questionnaires screening for burnout (BBI-15), depression (BDI), and executive functions (EFs) in daily life (BRIEF-A). The subjects with burnout had more challenges in EFs, higher average HRs and lower numbers of steps in daily life than those without it. The BBI-15 scores correlated positively with the BDI scores and BRIEF-A indices and negatively with the awake HR variability (HRV) and daily steps. The metacognition index correlated negatively with the HRV. In conclusion, burnout is linked with compromised EFs along with alterations in cardiac physiology and PA in daily life. Such alterations may be easily detected with wearable devices, opening possibilities for novel biomarkers of burnout and other neuropsychiatric disorders. We suggest that physical activity and heart and brain health are intimately intertwined and that burnout interacts with each of them bidirectionally.
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