India, Aug. 6 -- A team of University of Texas at El Paso biologists have conducted a study which discovered that nighttime caffeine consumption can increase impulsive behaviour, potentially leading to reckless actions.

The study, published in iScience, examined how nighttime caffeine intake affects inhibition and impulsivity in fruit flies and was led by Erick Saldes, Ph.D., Paul Sabandal, Ph.D., and Kyung-An Han, Ph.D. Drosophila melanogaster, the fruit fly species used in the study, is a powerful model to study complex behaviors due to its genetic and neural parallels with humans, said Han.

"Caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive substance in the world, with about 85% of adults in the U.S. using it regularly," said Sabanda...