Caffeine maintains vigilance and improves run times during night operations for special forces

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 7 I, 2005, Pages 647-654

  McLellan, Tom M ^a   Kamimori, Gary H ^b   Voss, David M ^c   Bell, Douglas G ^a   Cole, Karl G ^c   Johnson, Dagny ^b  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE FORCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Continuous operations; Ergogenic and cognitive aids; Marksmanship; Physical and cognitive performance; Psychomotor task

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE;

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NIGHT; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; SOLDIER; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORK SCHEDULE;

ADULT; CAFFEINE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FIREARMS; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEW ZEALAND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RUNNING; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 21644468244     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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