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Modafinil, inhibitory control, and alcoholism

open access: yes, 2013
Commentary on L. Schmaal et al, 'Effects of Modafinil on Neural Correlates of Response Inhibition in Alcohol-Dependent Patients' Biological Psychiatry, Volume 73, Issue 3, 1 February 2013, pp 211 ...
Chamberlain, Samuel R.
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Cognitive enhancement? Exploring modafinil use in social context

open access: yes, 2011
This chapter takes the ‘wakefulness promoting’ drug modafinil as an exemplarity case in the sociology of pharmaceutical enhancement. The chapter draws on empirical data collected through 25 interviews with prospective users of modafinil, focusing on two ...
Coveney, Catherine, Catherine M. Coveney
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Modafinil as a Pharmaceutical Therapy for Cocaine Withdrawal

open access: yes, 2017
Purpose: Modafinil has been proposed as a possible pharmaceutical adjunct therapy for cocaine withdrawal. This study tested Modafinil’s interaction with cocaine to determine its usefulness in a clinical setting.
Forster, Michael, McMahan, Daniel
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Evaluation of the effect of Modafinil in the improvement of the level of consciousness in patients with COVID‐19 encephalopathy: A randomized controlled trial

open access: yesNeuropsychopharmacology Reports
Aim COVID‐19 can lead to encephalopathy and loss of consciousness. This double‐blinded randomized clinical trial conducted in Tehran, Iran, aimed to assess the potential effectiveness of modafinil in patients with COVID‐19‐related encephalopathy. Methods
Fatemeh Talebi Kiasari   +10 more
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Modafinil bij alcoholafhankelijke patiënten: het effect op terugval

open access: yes, 2013
Relapse in alcohol dependence affects more than 50% of all alcohol-dependent patients. Diminished impulse control may perhaps provoke these high relapse rates and may therefore be a mechanism that can be targeted for treatment. To explain and discuss the
Joos, L.   +3 more
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Kleine-Levine syndrome in an adolescent female and response to modafinil

open access: yesAnnals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2011
Kleine-Levine Syndrome (KLS) is a disorder characterized by a triad of periodic hypersomnia, hyperphagia, and hypersexuality. KLS, although more common in young males, it has also been seen in females.
Aggarwal Ashish, Garg Amit, Jiloha R
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High Potency Eugeroics-- Wake-Promoting Agents Beyond Modafinil

open access: yes, 2015
Modafinil (Provigil) belongs to a new pharmaceutical class known as eugeroics— wake-promoting agents. Directly enhancing conductance across neuronal membranes, modafinil, amplifies presynaptic Na/Ca influx; resultant widespread depolarization of cortical
Yoham, Joseph
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Preclinical studies with modafinil. Evidence for vigilance enhancement and neuroprotection

open access: yes, 1996
Modafinil, which is presently used in the treatment of narcolepsy, induces EEG arousal in mammals, including rhesus monkeys and produces behavioral arousal in mice and rats without the induction of stereotyped behaviors. Pharmacological analysis suggests
FERRARO, Luca Nicola   +6 more
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Addictive potencial of modafinil and cross-sensitization with cocaine: a preclinical study

open access: yes, 2010
Repeated or even a single exposure to all addictive drugs causes persistent locomotor sensitization, which is the result of an abundance of neuroplastic changes occurring within the circuitry involved in motivational behavior and is thought to play a key
Wuo-Silva, Raphael [UNIFESP]
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