Hormonal responses of pilots to training flights: The effects of experience on apparent stress

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 410-414

  Otsuka, Yasutami ^a   Onozawa, Akihiko ^a   Miyamoto, Yoshinori ^a  

^a Aeromedical Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenaline; Cortisol; Flight experience; Hormones; Noradrenaline; Stress; Student pilots; Training

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SALIVA LEVEL; SPACE FLIGHT; STRESS; STUDENT; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AVIATION; EPINEPHRINE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33645702625     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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