U.S., Sept. 22 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07830056) titled 'Modafinil to Optimize the Performance of Cold-Stressed Sleep-Deprived Personnel' on March 06.
Brief Summary: Environmental and workplace stressors are common and often unavoidable in military operations. Two critical stressors are cold stress and sleep loss. They both can substantially degrade operational effectiveness. Various countermeasures are available to mitigate the adverse effects of these stressors, but due to operational requirements many are of limited use in the field. Modafinil is a drug that mitigates the effects of sleep deprivation and potentially cold stress, and modafinil may prevent performance degradation due to...