Neurology: A `Jet Bounce' in Biorhythms From: The Washington Post | Date: November 13, 1989| Author: Malcolm Gladwell | Copyright 1989 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

You fly to Paris on the Concorde. You stay at the Ritz, eating truffles and sleeping off jet lag. After a week, your biological clock back in balance, you are once more up to 100 percent. Right?

Wrong, maybe. According to the findings of two neurologists, about 10 days after the onset of jet lag comes another, less severe, shock-"jet bounce," which impairs mental performance and alertness.

The researchers base their findings on experiments with seven rhesus monkeys, who were p...

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