The brands, both from Cadbury, a division of Kraft Foods, are taking marketing cues from products like energy drinks and cereal that make claims to bolster alertness or wellness — though some of the gums stop short of promising health benefits.
Regardless of cause, the results show that patients are poor at recognising alertness state even though there is clear evidence of EEG slowing in both hemispheres, similar to that seen after sleep deprivation.
If you really want the state of relaxed, stress-free alertness that Allen calls "mind like water", though, scribbling the occasional list won't cut it.
I find these poems, notably the Assia poems, among the most remarkable work of Hughes's late years, though in their alertness to the processes of self-destruction they are of a piece with the body of his poetry.
Therefore, after consecutive night shifts, the nurses' performance on attentive tasks decreased significantly, and their daytime levels of alertness were also lower, even though there was no difference in subjective sleepiness among the groups.
In his final years, Larwood gradually lost his sight, though he retained his alertness, and on his 90th birthday was able to join in a game of garden cricket with his great-grandchildren.
Arousal and alertness are also modulated on a finer time scale, though, by an extensive network of brain areas.
What you will also find, though, are the tools of transformation: generosity, patience, intellectual alertness, a thirst for balance and a trust in the fragile beneficence of beauty that is both actively utopian and utterly reality-based, as the experience of art should be.
There is, though, no loss of vigour or alertness.
