Effects of mental workload and caffeine on catecholamines and blood pressure compared to performance variations

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 143-154

  Papadelis, Christos ^a,b   Kourtidou Papadeli, Chrysoula ^a,b   Vlachogiannis, Emmanouil ^c   Skepastianos, Petros ^b   Bamidis, Panayiotis ^a,d   Maglaveras, Nikos ^a   Pappas, Kostantinos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Greek Aerospace Medical Association and Space Research   (Greece)

^c St Paul's Hospital   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Caffeine; Catecholamines; Cognitive performance; Mental workload

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CAFFEINE; CATECHOLAMINE; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENALIN URINE LEVEL; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CATECHOLAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COFFEE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0345269730     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-2626(02)00530-4     Document Type: Article

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