Mark Moss

TL;DR: Findings indicate that the olfactory properties of these essential oils can produce objective effects on cognitive performance, as well as subjective effects on mood.

TL;DR: Peppermint was found to enhance memory whereas ylang-ylang impaired it, and lengthened processing speed, and significantly increased calmness, in terms of subjective mood, which provides support for the contention that the aromas of essential oils can produce significant and idiosyncratic effects on both subjective and objective assessments of aspects of human behavior.

TL;DR: The results confirm that oxygen administration significantly enhances cognitive performance above that seen in the air inhalation condition, and suggest that under periods of cognitive demand a number of physiological responses are brought into play that serve to increase the delivery of metabolic substrates to active neural tissue.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed whether perceived social support might mitigate the psychological, endocrine and health consequences of caregiver stress in parents of children with autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

TL;DR: The results provided support for earlier work in that increases were found in both immediate and delayed word recall and oxygen administration significantly improved performance on several measures of attention and vigilance, consistent with the hypothesis that cognitive performance is “fuel-limited” and can be differentially augmented by increasing the availability of the brain’s metabolic resources.