Body and the Brain

Guest: Ranjana Mehta, a professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at Texas A&M University speaks with student producer James Perkins about the link between mental fatigue and muscle strength.  When your brain’s stressed, your body is too. Normally, we think about fatigue as a purely physical problem, but research from Texas A&M has shown that there’s a correlation between trying to perform mental tasks and your physical endurance. The more occupied your mind is, the more fatigued your muscles become. Student producer James Perkins spoke about this correlation with Ranjana Metha, a professor of environmental and occupational health at Texas A&M.