ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book correlates individual differences in neural structure and function with behaviors. It describes vigilance attention tasks to determine whether the vulnerability of individuals to sleep deprivation has stable trait-like properties indicating a possible genetic component. The book suggests that resilience of an individual to fatigue induced by sleep deprivation is a stable trait. It also suggests that individual resistance to fatigue from sleep deprivation appears to be a direct function of the diffusion tensor imaging. The book explores multitasking events associated with subject response and observed changes in parietal cortical activation. The real-time assessments include fitness-for-duty based on physiological measures, technologies for enhancing soldier comprehension of data sets, improved leadership training based on neurophysiological outcomes, and analysis of brain areas directly involved in decision-making.
