Dietary caffeine, performance and mood: enhancing and restorative effects after controlling for withdrawal reversal
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This study aimed to determine whether sustained (i.e. dietary) use of caffeine has net effects on performance and mood compared with sustained abstinence, and whether dietary caffeine restores performance and mood adversely affected by sleep restriction. Participants (n = 96) alternated weekly between ingesting placebo and caffeine (1.75 mg/kg) three times daily for 4 consecutive weeks, while either rested or sleep restricted. Performance involved either a single task requiring sustained vigilance or a varied battery of brief psychomotor and cognitive tasks, and mood was assessed using the Profile of Mood States. Caffeine had no significant net enhancing effects for either performance or mood when participants were rested, and produced no net restorative effects when performance and mood were degraded by sleep restriction.
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Studies that have employed long-term caffeine withdrawal methodology have consistently failed to find cognitive enhancing effects of acute caffeine.
“In fact, studies that have employed long-term caffeine withdrawal methodology have consistently failed to find cognitive enhancing effects of acute caffeine (78–82).”
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- Authors
- James, J. E., Gregg, M. E., Kane, M., & Harte, F.
- Affiliations
- Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway (IE)
- ORCID
- James, Jack E.
- Venue
- Neuropsychobiology
- Publisher
- S. Karger AG
- Published
- 2005
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-10
- ISSN
- 0302-282X (ISSN-L)
- 1423-0224
- OpenAlex
- W1979789874
- Cited by
- 40
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
- 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 2.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Neuropsychobiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- European Commission
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Coffee research and impacts
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Keywords
- dietary caffeine, caffeine withdrawal, caffeine abstinence, sleep restriction, sustained attention, psychomotor performance, cognitive performance, mood, Profile of Mood States, restorative effects
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Affect, Central Nervous System Stimulants, Arousal, Caffeine, Diet, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Saliva, Sex Characteristics, Sleep Deprivation, Substance Withdrawal Syndrome
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