99 male soldiers preparing for combat were randomized to receive either an ABMT condition designed to enhance vigilance toward threat or an attention control training (ACT) designed to balance attention deployment between neutral and threat words.
Sri Lankan media later reported the Defence Secretary as saying that "the modern 'community police' concept was introduced to Sri Lanka as CDCs [which] were used effectively particularly during the final phase of the war to enhance vigilance among communities".
CRH is known to impair sleep and enhance vigilance, thereby suggesting a causal relationship between shallow sleep and the hyperactivity of the HPA system in melancholic depression [6] [8], [15], [51].
This is perhaps not surprising, as chewing has not been shown to enhance vigilance either and, in fact, negatively effects it in children [ 62].
We recommend enhanced vigilance and screening of such patients, both to reduce illness and death and to prevent nosocomial spread of TB among susceptible persons.
Freezing in humans is a transient state that occurs at the very beginning of the threat experience and that involves heightened attention, enhanced vigilance to threat cues, and an activated, tense body poised for action.
The Turkish basketball federation said Friday that the star player Diana Taurasi had tested positive for a stimulant that was identified as modafinil, a drug that enhances wakefulness and vigilance and is designed to treat narcolepsy, sleep apnea and sleep disorders related to shift work.
Modafinil is an atypical stimulant, originally designed to enhance wakefulness and vigilance in the treatment of narcolepsy and sometimes prescribed as an off-label treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
On 21 September, amid warnings from anonymous officials that terror attacks were being planned on public places, France said it was "enhancing" its vigilance.
Indeed, Bryant et al. (2014) recently found that the use of Watch Keeping and Enhanced Vigilance (WK and EV) in addition with other tactics was more effective than any combination of tactics absent WK and EV.
