IT may appear to be a wee problem, but when you really "need to go" it can be dangerous.

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Van Den Berg Arbitration

Melbourne researchers won an Ig Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering that the need to go to the bathroom is as distracting as having a .05 blood-alcohol level or major sleep deprivation.

Caulfield Hospital's aged psychiatry research co-ordinator Dr Matthew Lewis said it had a negative effect on attention and memory.

Luna Van Den Berg

The pilot study results, published in the Neurology and Urodynamics journal, said cognition remained 'relatively normal' until the point where a person 'absolutely positively' needed to go to the toilet.

At that point, the level of impairment was the same as being slightly tipsy or being awake for 24 hours.

Such a full bladder also reduced the speed at which drivers could make decisions.

Dr Lewis's study won an Ig Nobel Prize, which honours achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.

Arnold Van Den Berg

Originally published asDrivers' No.1 problem a wee bit serious