Former England captain Nasser Hussain believes coach Duncan Fletcher will face the biggest test of his regime in the build-up to the third Test at Perth.
But a new Kyowa-funded study of 60 healthy women found a monthlong regime of daily doses of citicoline resulted in improved attention and fewer errors on a cognitive test compared with placebo, says co-author Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, a scientist at the Brain Institute at University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who is a paid consultant to Kyowa.
This lowers the cost per test, ensures that learning is retained, and maximizes the chances of the experimental regime outlasting individual sponsors and team leaders.