News tagged with modafinil
Narcolepsy Drug Being Used to Improve Cognitive Performance Affects Brain Dopamine Activity
Preliminary research in healthy men suggests that the narcolepsy drug modafinil, increasingly being used to enhance cognitive abilities, affects the activity of dopamine in the brain in a way that may create ...
Mar 17, 2009 |
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What drugs do to the brain
Drug abuse is probably linked to an in-built tendency to act without thinking, as shown by studies of siblings of chronic stimulant users, a leading neuroscientist will claim this week.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Guideline issued for treating sleep, constipation, sexual problems in Parkinson's disease
The American Academy of Neurology has issued a new guideline recommending the most effective treatments to help people with Parkinson's disease who experience sleep, constipation, and sexual problems, which are common but ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Teen marijuana use tilts up, while some drugs decline in use
(PhysOrg.com) -- Marijuana use among American adolescents has increased gradually over the past two years (three years among 12th-graders) following years of declining use, according to the latest Monitoring the Future study, ...
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Increase in 'academic doping' could spark routine urine tests for exam students
The increasing use of smart drugs or "nootropics," to boost academic performance, could mean that exam students will face routine doping tests in future, suggests an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Researchers Study Academic Effects of ADHD Drugs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stimulant medications used to treat Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, are often assumed to improve memory and make a person smarter, but experts have found that is not the case. Researchers ...
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Combating weight gain caused by antipsychotic treatments
Antipsychotic drugs, such as olanzapine (Zyprexa), risperidone (Risperdal) and quetiapine (Seroquel), are commonly used to treat psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, but also bipolar disorder and even behavioral problems ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Study: 'Smart drug' Provigil may be habit-forming
(AP) -- A so-called "smart drug" popular with young people may carry more of an addiction risk than thought, a small government study suggests. Scans of 10 healthy men showed that the prescription drug Provigil ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Researchers discover new mechanism for attentional control in the human brain
A study by UC Davis researchers appearing in the journal Science reports the discovery of a new mechanism of attention in the human brain. Previous studies in animals implicated changes in the state of a portion of the br ...
Dec 15, 2008 |
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'Wake-Up Pill' Under Study to Treat Patients with Bipolar Disorder
A preliminary study of 85 patients with bipolar disorder shows that a drug used to treat patients with sleep disorders might also control the depressive symptoms associated with bipolar disorder. At least 44 percent of the ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Aug 01, 2007 |
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