The effect of a single dose of multivitamin and mineral combinations with and without guaraná on functional brain activity during a continuous performance task

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 8-22

  White, David J ^a   Camfield, David A ^a,b   Maggini, Silvia ^c   Pipingas, Andrew ^a   Silberstein, Richard ^a   Stough, Con ^a   Scholey, Andrew ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c Bayer Consumer Care AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acute effects; Attention; Continuous performance test; Guaran ; Multivitamin; Neuroimaging; Steady state visually evoked potential (SSVEP)

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; BIOTIN; CALCIUM; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; GUARANA EXTRACT; MAGNESIUM; MINERAL; MULTIVITAMIN; NICOTINAMIDE; PANTOTHENIC ACID; PLACEBO; PYRIDOXINE; RIBOFLAVIN; THIAMINE; ZINC; CAFFEINE; CALCIUM INTAKE; GUARANA POWDER; PERFORMANCE ENHANCING SUBSTANCE; THEOBROMINE; THEOPHYLLINE; VITAMIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GUARANA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LOW DRUG DOSE; MINERAL SUPPLEMENTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIAL; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CALCIUM INTAKE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CAFFEINE; CALCIUM, DIETARY; COGNITION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNESIUM; NEURONS; PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING SUBSTANCES; THEOBROMINE; THEOPHYLLINE; VITAMINS; YOUNG ADULT; ZINC;

EID: 84978513196     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1476830514Y.0000000157     Document Type: Article

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