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Twelve, healthy normal men aged 21–25 years received each of four treatments (triazolam placebo plus caffeine placebo, triazolam 0.50 mg plus caffeine placebo, triazolam 0.50 mg plus caffeine 4 mg/kg, triazolam 0.50 mg plus caffeine 8 mg/kg), double blind, in a Latin-Square design. Triazolam or placebo was administered at 0830 and caffeine or placebo at 1000 and 1245. On two memory tasks, administered at 1015 with an immediate recall and a delayed recall at 1230 following a 90 min nap (1030–1200), both immediate and delayed recall was impaired by triazolam. Neither caffeine dose reversed the impairments. Sleep latency and sleep efficiency were improved by triazolam and not reversed by caffeine. On a performance battery presented at 1300 most measures of performance were impaired by triazolam; in general the caffeine dose of 4 mg/kg partially reversed the effect while the dose of 8 mg/kg completely restored performance.
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Roehrs, T., Zwyghuizen-Doorenbos, A., Smith, D., Zorick, F., Roth, T. (1988). Reversal by Caffeine of Triazolam-Induced Impairment of Waking Function. In: Hindmarch, I., Ott, H. (eds) Benzodiazepine Receptor Ligands, Memory and Information Processing. Psychopharmacology Series, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73288-1_14
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