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The Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacogenomics of Psychostimulants

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2022
The psychostimulants-amphetamine and methylphenidate-have been in clinical use for well more than 60 years. In general, both stimulants are rapidly absorbed with relatively poor bioavailability and short half-lives. The pharmacokinetics of both stimulants are generally linear and dose proportional although substantial interindividual variability in ...
Philip W Melchert
exaly   +3 more sources

[Psychostimulants].

Revue medicale de Liege, 2008
Over the last twenty years, cocaine, amphetamines and MDMA (ecstasy) have found new categories of users, seeking for their stimulating effects. These substances may lead to real dependence and may cause serious somatic and psychiatric damage. In this perspective, we reviewed the available literature concerning problematic psychoactive drug use in ...
E, Pinto, W, Pitchot, M, Ansseau
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Psychostimulants

2020
A current survey and synthesis of the most important findings in our understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms of addiction are detailed in our Neurobiology of Addiction series, each volume addressing a specific area of addiction. Psychostimulants, Volume 2 in the series, explores the molecular and cellular systems in the brain responsible for ...
Koob, Georges F.   +3 more
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Psychostimulants for depression

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2007
Depression is common, disabling, costly and under-treated. There are problems in the current first-line drug treatment, antidepressants, for moderate or severe depression. There is a body of research that has evaluated the effect of psychostimulants (PS) in the treatment of depression.
M, Candy   +4 more
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Psychostimulants in Psychiatry

The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1990
The use of the psychostimulants in psychiatry is reviewed. A brief historical perspective on dextroamphetamine is presented, and a brief review of the psychopharmacology of dextroamphetamine, methylphenidate and magnesium pemoline is given. The literature on the use of stimulants in the treatment of resistant depression, apathetic geriatric patients ...
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