Performance, ability to stay awake, and tendency to fall asleep during the night after a diurnal sleep with temazepam or placebo

Sleep

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 535-541

  Porcù, Silvio ^a,c   Bellatreccia, Andrea ^a   Ferrara, Michele ^a,b   Casagrande, Maria ^a,b  

^a Div Aerea Studi Ric S   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Pratica di Mare AFB   (Italy)

Author keywords

Daytime sleep; Performance; Shift of wake sleep cycle; Sleepiness; Temazepam; Time of day effects

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; TEMAZEPAM;

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIFT WORKER; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0030866730     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/20.7.535     Document Type: Article

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