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Nootropics And Foods

1999
Food, diet, vitamins, trace elements, minerals, and additives have been part of folk treatments for mental disorders dating back to itinerant peddlers of snake oil. Foods are often touted by those outside the traditional medical mainstream as substitutes for established treatments.
C. Keith Conners, Elizabeth P. Sparrow
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Piracetam and other structurally related nootropics

Brain Research Reviews, 1994
Nearly three decades have now passed since the discovery of the piracetam-like nootropics, compounds which exhibit cognition-enhancing properties, but for which no commonly accepted mechanism of action has been established. This review covers clinical, pharmacokinetic, biochemical and behavioural results presented in the literature from 1965 through ...
A H, Gouliaev, A, Senning
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Nootropic supplements for esports

International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research
Abstract: Background: esports, or organized video game competitions, have been expanding quickly. The use of dietary supplements by esports players appears vulgarized but lacks supporting evidence. Objectives: To outline studies that tested the effects of dietary supplements on video gaming, summarize their findings, highlight knowledge gaps, and ...
Fernando J. Ribeiro, Rui Poínhos
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Nootropic drugs and brain cholinergic mechanisms

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 1989
1. This review has two aims: first, to marshal and discuss evidences demonstrating an interaction between nootropic drugs and brain cholinergic mechanisms; second, to define the relationship between the effects on cholinergic mechanisms and the cognitive process. 2.
G, Pepeu, G, Spignoli
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The nootropic concept and dyslexia

Annals of Dyslexia, 1986
A review is presented of controlled studies using intensive teaching intervention to improve dyslexics' reading ability. The results of eight controlled studies reveal only one showing the superiority of teaching. Taking this as a background, the work on Nootropics is reviewed.
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Nootrop wirkende Substanzen

1996
Die Alzheimer-Krankheit ist die haufigste geriatrische Krankheit. 5% der uber 65jahrigen leiden daran. Diese Zahl steigt rapide mit dem Lebensalter an, und bei den uber 8ojahrigen sind es schon uber 10 bis 20%. Allerdings kann die Krankheit schon bei 35jahrigen beginnen.
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Nootrop wirkende Substanzen

1993
Hirnleistungsstorungen im hoheren Lebensalter sind v.a. gekennzeichnet durch die Beeintrachtigung von Gedachtnis, Konzentrationsfahigkeit und abstraktem Denkvermogen sowie durch die Veranderung der Personlichkeit und des Sozialverhaltens. Der Schweregrad der Beeintrachtigung kann von einer geringen zerebralen Leistungsminderung bis zu sog.
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Nootropic agents stimulate neurogenesis

Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents, 2009
The application is in the field of adult neurogenesis, neural stem cells and cellular therapy. It aims to characterize the activity of nootropic agents on adult neurogenesis in vitro. Nootropic agents are substances improving cognitive and mental abilities. AMPA (alpha-amino-3-hydroxyl-5-methyl-4-isoxazole-propionate) and nootropic agents were assessed
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[Cholinergic effects of nootropics].

Biomedica biochimica acta, 1989
With respect to the enhancing effect of nootropics on learning and memory, the influence of some of these drugs on the high affinity choline uptake has been investigated. Meclofenoxate competes with choline uptake in vitro because of its similar side chain; other nootropics are without in vitro effects.
K F, Funk, J, Schmidt
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Zur klinischen Relevanz nootroper Effekte

1987
Seit den Untersuchungen von Giurgea (1973), die an dem zyklischen GABA-Derivat Piracetam durchgefuhrt wurden, hat sich in der Psychopharmakologie der Begriff Nootropika eingeburgert. Gemeint ist hiermit eine Gruppe chemisch unterschiedlicher Substanzen, zu denen neben dem Piracetam auch das Pyritinol, Centrophenoxin, Vincamin, Naftidrofuryl, Cinnarizin
R. Zimmer, A. Kurz, H. Lauter
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