Effects of high-dose B vitamin complex with vitamin C and minerals on subjective mood and performance in healthy males

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-68

  Kennedy, David O ^a   Veasey, Rachel ^a   Watson, Anthony ^a   Dodd, Fiona ^a   Jones, Emma ^a   Maggini, Silvia ^b   Haskell, Crystal F ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Bayer Consumer Care AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cognitive; Deficiency; Executive function; Mineral; Mood; Stress; Supplementation; Vitamin

Indexed keywords

BEROCCA; MULTIVITAMIN; PLACEBO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RESPONSE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFILE OF MOOD STATES; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASCORBIC ACID; COGNITION; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FATIGUE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; MINERALS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PLACEBOS; QUESTIONNAIRES; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

EID: 77955573201     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-010-1870-3     Document Type: Article

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