@article{ref1,
title="Effects of alcohol and chronic aspartame ingestion upon performance in aviation relevant cognitive tasks",
journal="Aviation, space, and environmental medicine",
year="1994",
author="Stokes, A. F. and Belger, A. and Banich, Marie T. and Bernadine, E.",
volume="65",
number="1",
pages="7-15",
abstract="Acute dosing studies of aspartame, known commercially as &quot;NutraSweet,&quot; have failed to demonstrate any neuropsychological changes that would imply performance decrements in flight operations. Such studies may be criticized on the grounds that the administration of a single, if large, dose of aspartame is not ecologically valid. Accordingly, a double-blind chronic dosing study of aspartame was conducted using ethanol (at 0.1% BAL) as the positive control. No detectable cognitive performance decrements were associated with the aspartame condition. However, the alcohol results exhibited a pattern of asymmetric lateral brain impairment that closely resembles that observed in studies of depressive patients. These results have operational implications as well as theoretical importance.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0095-6562",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}