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Wakefulness-Promoting Agents

Known as: Wakefulness Promoting Agents, Wake Promoting Substances, Wake-Promoting Drugs 
A specific category of drugs that prevent sleepiness by specifically targeting sleep-mechanisms in the brain. They are used to treat DISORDERS OF… 
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Highly Cited
2018
Highly Cited
2018
Health promoting lifestyle of university students in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional assessment
BackgroundCollege is a critical time where students are more prone to engage in risky health behaviors known to negatively affect… 
Highly Cited
2017
Highly Cited
2017
Decreased alertness due to sleep loss increases pain sensitivity in mice
Extended daytime and nighttime activities are major contributors to the growing sleep deficiency epidemic, as is the high… 
Review
2011
Review
2011
Sleep Disorders in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a global problem and causes long-term disability in millions of individuals. This is a major… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Coping in an HIV/AIDS-dominated context: teachers promoting resilience in schools.
This paper explains how teachers in schools function as resources to buoy resilience in the face of human immunodeficiency virus… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Impairment of attentional networks after 1 night of sleep deprivation.
Here, we assessed the effects of sleep deprivation (SD) on brain activation and performance to a parametric visual attention task… 
Review
2008
Review
2008
A Conceptual Model of Medical Student Well-Being: Promoting Resilience and Preventing Burnout
ObjectiveThis article proposes and illustrates a conceptual model of medical student well-being.MethodThe authors reviewed the… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Mentoring adolescent foster youth: promoting resilience during developmental transitions
The current exploratory study used quantitative and qualitative data from an evaluation of the Advocates to Successful Transition… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Africentric youth and family rites of passage program: promoting resilience among at-risk African American youths.
This article examines the effects of an Africentric youth and family rites of passage program on at-risk African American youths… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Sleep, waking and neurobehavioural performance.
Waking neurobehavioural or cognitive functioning is largely dependent on two mechanisms both in synchrony and in opposition to… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Promoting school connectedness: evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.
Increasing evidence shows that when adolescents feel cared for by people at their school and feel like a part of their school… 
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