The study presented was an assessment of the operational efficacy of modafinil for field environments, particularly focused on a type of environment which downed aircrew may encounter. This study was designed to examine the ability of modafinil to maintain alertness and performance over several days of reduced sleep in a field environment. The type of activity used in this study may be similar to some escape and evasion scenarios in ...
The present study determined whether modafinil (100-mgs after 17, 22, and 27 hours without sleep) attenuated the effects of fatigue on fighter-pilot alertness and performance. A quasi-experimental, single-blind, counterbalanced design was used in which 5 pilots from a previous F-117 fatigue study (in which no fatigue remedy was employed) were retested with modafinil. Their data were combined with the data from 5 newly-recruited F-117 pilots who were evaluated under modafinil ...
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