stimulant
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Current treatments for attention disorders typically increase excitatory signaling in prefrontal brain circuits using stimulant medications.
From Science Daily
For decades, stimulant medications have been thought to work by directly influencing brain regions responsible for attention.
From Science Daily
OpenAI noted that the woman in the case study said she was prone to “magical thinking,” and was on an antidepressant and a stimulant and had gone long stretches without sleep before her hospitalizations.
It also has defended its prescription practices and said providers use their clinical judgment to decide whether to prescribe stimulants to patients.
Of these, about 22,000 hectares are legal -- grown to be chewed as a stimulant, brewed into a tea thought to combat altitude sickness or used in religious rituals.
From Barron's
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