| abstract |
The invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for maintaining, restoring or increasing the attention and alertness of a fatigued person and for preventing accidents, damage, or incorrect decisions as a result of excess fatigue, particularly during extended monotonous activities. The objects of the invention are to create a method and an apparatus, which can minimize sleepiness and micro-sleep and considerable risks due to accidents, damage and incorrect decisions. According to the invention, it is provided in a method that the person in a stationary or movable device is caused to be moved from a fatigued awake state into brief sleep by technically and/or drug and/or behavior therapy-based measures, sleep-medicine measurements of eye movements and/or muscle and/or brain activities are evaluated, and after the brief sleep has been reached, particularly sleep stage 2 of sleep physiology, the person is influenced by a wake-up signal generated by said evaluation. According to the invention, an apparatus is provided for implementing the method. |