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What Does Fashion Week Do to the Nervous System?

Ask a Neuroscientist × Fashion, exhibition 005: The Fashion Week Nervous System

From RN Collins, selected work

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The articleWhat Does Fashion Week Do to the Nervous System? ask-a-neuroscientist-fashion.vercel.app

Research cited

  1. Paula Alhola and Päivi Polo-Kantola (2007). Sleep deprivation: Impact on cognitive performance. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  2. NIOSH Training for Nurses on Shift Work and Long Work Hours (2015-2021). cdc.gov
  3. Christine Blume et al. (2019). Effects of light on human circadian rhythms, sleep and mood. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  4. Mohammad Javad Jafari et al. (2019). The Effect of Noise Exposure on Cognitive Performance and Brain Activity Patterns. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  5. Environmental noise guidelines for the European Region (2018). who.int
  6. M. Beermann et al. (2023). The connection between stress, density, and speed in crowds. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  7. Panagiotis Mavros et al. (2022). A mobile EEG study on the psychophysiological effects of walking and crowding in indoor and outdoor urban environments. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  8. Andrew P. Allen et al. (2017). The Trier Social Stress Test: Principles and practice. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  9. Thomas R. Waters and Robert B. Dick (2015). Evidence of Health Risks Associated with Prolonged Standing at Work and Intervention Effectiveness. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
  10. Managing Fatigue During Times of Crisis (2020). cdc.gov
  11. London Fashion Week Highlights February 2018, 360 VR (2018). youtube.com
  12. Designer Fashion Fund Episode 3: London Fashion Week (undated channel record). youtube.com

Other sources

  1. Field Load / Recovery Mapper (2026). ask-a-neuroscientist-fashion.vercel.app
  2. The evidence reading room for this exhibition: every claim, its source and what it does not prove ask-a-neuroscientist-fashion.vercel.app

Images, slide by slide

Image 1 in the essay
Runway show · Ahmad Ardity · CC0. The photograph documents light, movement, spectatorship and navigation; it does not measure exposure or physiology.CC0Photo record
Image 2 in the essay
RN Collins, Fashion Week field-load score, 2026. Original evidence graphic. The score organizes questions; it does not calculate exposure or diagnose a response.RN Collins

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