Fatigue & insomnia

Caffeine pros and cons — References & further reading

¹ Landolt, H., et al. 2004. Caffeine attenuates waking and sleep electroencephalographic markers of sleep homeostasis in humans. Neuropsychopharmacology., 29 (10), 1933–1939. URL: http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v29/n10/full/1300526a.html (accessed 11.06.2009).

  Van Dongen, H., et al. 2001. Caffeine eliminates psychomotor vigilance deficits from sleep inertia. Sleep, 24 (7), 813–819. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11683484 (accessed 11.06.2009).

  Reyner, L., & Horne, J. 2000. Early morning driver sleepiness: Effectiveness of 200 mg caffeine. Psychophysiology, 37 (2), 251–256. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10731775 (accessed 11.06.2009).

² Benitex, P.L., et al. 2009. Modeling fatigue over sleep deprivation, circadian rhythm, and caffeine with a minimal performance inhibitor model. Methods Enzymol., 453, 405–421. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19216936 (accessed 09.21.2009).

  Dagon, Y., et al. 2006. Cognitive performance during sustained wakefulness: A low dose of caffeine is equally effective as modafinil in alleviating the nocturnal decline. Chronobiol. Int., 23 (5), 973-983. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17050212 (accessed 09.21.2009).

³ Van Dongen, H., et al. 2001.

  Reyner, L., & Horne, J. 2000.

  Walsh, J., et al. 1990. Effect of caffeine on physiological sleep tendency and ability to sustain wakefulness at night. Psychopharmacology, 101 (2), 271–273. URL: http://www.springerlink.com/content/737012m884015q04/ (accessed 11.06.2009).

⁴ Ataka, S., et al. 2008. Effects of oral administration of caffeine and D-ribose on mental fatigue. Nutrition, 24 (3), 233-238. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18178380 (accessed 09.21.2009).

⁵ Attwood, A., et al. 2007. Differential responsiveness to caffeine and perceived effects of caffeine immoderate and high regular caffeine consumers. Psychopharmacology (Berl.), 190 (4), 469–477. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17136398 (accessed 11.06.2009).

⁶ Haskell, C., et al. 2005. Cognitive and mood improvements of caffeine in habitual consumers and habitual non-consumers of caffeine. Psychopharmacology (Berl.), 179 (4), 813-825. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15678363 (accessed 09.21.2009).

⁷ Attwood, A., et al. 2007.

⁸ Angelucci, M., et al. 2002. Effects of caffeine on learning and memory in rats tested in the Morris water maze. Braz. J. Med. Biol. Res., 35 (10), 1201–1208. URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2002001000013&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en (accessed 11.06.2009).

  Hameleers, P., et al. 2000. Habitual caffeine consumption and its relation to memory, attention, planning capacity and psychomotor performance across multiple age groups. Hum. Psychopharmacol., 15 (8), 462-470. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12404609 (accessed 11.06.2009).

  Warburton, D. 1995. Effects of caffeine on cognition and mood without caffeine abstinence. Psychopharmacology, 119 (1), 66–70. URL (abstract): http://www.springerlink.com/content/yj8v0h54w05x222q/ (accessed 11.06.2009).

⁹ Capek, S., & Guenther, R. 2009. Caffeine’s effects on true and false memory. Psychol. Rep., 104 (3), 787–795. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19708406 (accessed 11.06.2009).

  Wikipedia.org. 2009. Effect of caffeine on memory. URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_caffeine_on_memory#Long-term_memory (accessed 11.06.2009).

¹⁰ Ataka, S., et al. 2008.

¹¹ Carrier, J., et al. 2007. Effects of caffeine are more marked on daytime recovery sleep than on nocturnal sleep. Neuropsychopharmacology, 32 (4), 964-972. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16936703 (accessed 09.21.2009).

¹² Hansard, D. 04.21.2005. Overworked brains release adenosine to slow cells, trigger sleep, UT Southwestern researchers find. Medical News Today. URL: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=23184 (accessed 06.08.2006).

¹³ Wikipedia. 2009. Adenosine A1 receptor. URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_A1_receptor (accessed 11.06.2009).

  Ferré, S. 2008. An update on the mechanisms of the psychostimulant effects of caffeine. J. Neurochemistry, 105 (4), 1067–1079. URL: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120085374/HTMLSTART (accessed 11.06.2009.

¹⁴ Farag, N., et al. 2006. Sex differences in the hemodynamic responses to mental stress: Effect of caffeine consumption. Psychophysiology, 43 (4), 337-343. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16916429 (accessed 09.21.2009).

¹⁵ Daly, J. 2007. Caffeine analogs: Biomedical impact. Cell Mol. Life Sci., 64 (16), 2153-2169. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17514358 (accessed 09.21.2009).

¹⁶ Laitala, V., et al. 2009. Coffee drinking in middle age is not associated with cognitive performance in old age. Am. J. Clin. Nutr., 90 (3), 640–646. URL (abstract): http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/90/3/640 (accessed 11.18.2009).

¹⁷ Arendash, G., et al. 2009. Caffeine reverses cognitive impairment and decreases brain amyloid-beta levels in aged Alzheimer's disease mice. J. Alzheimers Dis., 17 (3), 661–680. URL (abstract): www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19581722 (accessed 11.06.2009).

  Cao, C., et al. 2009. Caffeine suppresses amyloid-beta levels in plasma and brain of Alzheimer’s disease transgenic mice. J. Alzheimers Dis., 17 (3), 681–697. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19581723 (accessed 11.06.2009).

  Whelihan, J. 2007. Human trials testing link between caffeine and Alzheimer’s: Revolutionary caffeine study being replicated in human participants. URL: http://www.byrdinstitute.org/news/institute-news/10-17-07.aspx (accessed 09.22.2009).

¹⁸ Arendash, G., et al. 2006. Caffeine protects Alzheimer’s mice against cognitive impairment and reduces brain beta-amyloid production. Neuroscience, 142 (4), 941–952. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19581722 (accessed 11.06.2009).

¹⁹ Helsinki Public Library. 2009. Ask Anything. Information gas station. URL: http://igs.kirjastot.fi/en-GB/iGS/questions/question.aspx (accessed 11.18.2009).

  Lockwood, G. 1992. Finns are top coffee drinkers. URL: http://www.allbusiness.com/manufacturing/food-manufacturing-food-coffee-tea/334646-1.html (accessed 11.18.2009).

²⁰ Eskelinen, M., et al. 2009. Midlife coffee and tea drinking and the risk of late-life dementia: A population-based CAIDE study. J. Alzheimers Dis., 16 (1), 85-91. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19158424 (accessed 11.06.2009).

²¹ Wong, K. 2001. Caffeine may protect against Parkinson’s. Scientific American. URL: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000A57BA-AD32-1C5E-B882809EC588ED9F (accessed 06.08.2006).

²² Kandinov, B., et al. 2009. Smoking and tea consumption delay onset of Parkinson’s disease. Parkinsonism Relat. Disord., 15 (1), 41-46. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18434232 (accessed 09.21.2009).

²³ Tan, L. et al. 2007. Differential effects of black versus green tea on risk of Parkinson’s disease in the Singapore Chinese Health Study. Am. J. Epidemiol., 167 (5), 553–560. URL: http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/167/5/553 (accessed 11.06.2009).

²⁴ Cornelis, M., et al. 2006. Coffee, CYP1A2 genotype, and risk of myocardial infarction. JAMA, 295 (10), 1135–1141. URL: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/295/10/1135 (accessed 08.26.2009).

  O’Riordan, M. 2006. Heavy coffee drinkers with slow caffeine metabolism at increased risk of nonfatal MI. URL: http://www.theheart.org/article/659871.do (accessed 08.26.2009).

²⁵ Collins, K. 2004. How much caffeine is too much? MSNBC.com. URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6631177 (accessed 09.21.2009).

²⁶ Mayo Clinic. 2007. Caffeine: How does it affect blood pressure? URL: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/blood-pressure/AN00792 (accessed 09.21.2009).

  Collins, K. 2004.

²⁷ Hamer, M, et al. 2006. Association between coffee consumption and markers of inflammation and cardiovascular function during mental stress. J. Hypertens., 24 (11), 2191–2197.URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17053540 (accessed 11.06.2009).

²⁸ Rickets, M–L., et al. 2007. The cholesterol-raising factor from coffee beans, cafestol, as an agonist ligand for the farnesoid and pregnane X receptors. Mol. Endocrinol., 21 (7), 1603–1616. URL: http://mend.endojournals.org/cgi/content/full/21/7/1603 (accessed 11.06.2009).

  See also:
  Schematic representation of the proposed mechanism by which cafestol increases cholesterol levels in vivo: http://mend.endojournals.org/cgi/content/full/21/7/1603/F9 (accessed 11.06.2009).

  Science Daily. 2007. How coffee raises cholesterol. URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070614162223.htm (accessed 09.21.2009).

  Weusten-Van der Wouw, M., et al. 1994. Identity of the cholesterol-raising factor from boiled coffee and its effects on liver function enzymes. J. Lipid Res., 35 (4), 721–733. URL (PDF): http://www.jlr.org/cgi/reprint/35/4/721 (accessed 11.06.2009).

  Urgert, R., et al. 1997. Separate effects of the coffee diterpenes cafestol and kahweol on serum lipids and liver aminotransferases. Am. J. Clin. Nutr., 65 (2), 519–524. URL (PDF): http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/65/2/519 (accessed 11.06.2009).

  Heckers, H., et al. 1994. End of the coffee mystery: Diterpene alcohols raise serum low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride levels. J. Intern. Med., 235 (5), 192–193. URL (no abstract available): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8308487 (accessed 11.06.2009).

²⁹ Bolling, B., et al. 2009. Tea and health: Preventive and therapeutic usefulness in the elderly? Curr. Opin. Clin. Nutr. Metab. Care, 12 (1), 42-48. URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub ed/19057186 (accessed 09.21.2009).

³⁰ Sharma, V., & Rao, L. 2009. A thought on the biological activities of black tea. Crit. Rev. Food. Sci. Nutr., 49 (5), 379–404. URL (abstract): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19399668 (accessed 09.21.2009).

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