Searching for the countermeasure of night-shift sleepiness

Sleep

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-20

  Åkerstedt, Torbjörn ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DRIVING ABILITY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIFT WORKER; SOMNOLENCE; WORK CAPACITY; WORK SCHEDULE; CAR DRIVING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SLEEP DISORDER; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; NOTE; SLEEP; TIME;

CAFFEINE; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CAFFEINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; HUMANS; NOISE; PHOTOTHERAPY; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS, CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645750031     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/29.1.19     Document Type: Editorial

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