Sevil Yasar, József Gaál, Leigh V. Panlilio, Zuzana Justinova, Szecsö V. Molnár, Godfrey H. Redhi, and Charles W. Schindler
Rationale: l-Deprenyl (selegiline) is used in the treatment of Parkinson disease and has been proposed as an aid for...
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Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behaviour 2007 May; 87(1): 20–29
William W. Stoops, Andrea R. Vansickel, Joshua A. Lile, and Craig R. Rush
Recent clinical research indicates that d-amphetamine is effective in treating cocaine and methamphetamine dependence. There is concern, however, with the...
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Joseph J. Tecce and Jonathan O. Cole
Thirteen of 20 normal adults given 10 milligrams of dextroamphetamine exhibited paradoxical drowsiness accompanied by lowered electrical brain activity (contingent negative variation, or CNV) in the first hour post-drug. During this period, seven subjects...
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Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2004 Jan;27(8):821-6.
McCann UD, Ricaurte GA.
In addition to the social, cultural and indirect medical complications of amphetamine analog abuse, this class of drugs is also known to have the potential to damage brain monoaminergic cells directly. Using methamphetamine...
BACKGROUND: Studies in experimental animals have implicated the mesolimbic dopaminergic projections into the ventral striatum in the neural processes...
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Drug Metabolism and Disposition 2007 Jan;35(1):180-4
Krishnan S, Moncrief S.
The human cytochrome P450 (P450) system is implicated in many drug interactions. Lisdexamfetamine dimesylate (NRP104), the proposed generic name for a new agent under investigation for treatment of attention...
Abstract: Substance abuse and addiction are the most costly of all the neuropsychiatric disorders. In the last decades, much progress has been achieved in understanding the effects of the drugs of abuse in the brain. However, efficient treatments that prevent relapse have not been developed. Drug...
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British Journal of Pharmacology 2007 March; 150(6): 711–719
P Bredeloux, I Dubuc, and J Costentin
Background and purpose:: In the present study we investigated, in a range of in vivo tests whether the antidepressant bupropion, and its metabolites shared the dopamine releasing effect of the...
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There is a lack of information regarding the effects of different amphetamine isomers on the body. After searching for a while, I found this article that provides a lot of great info on the topic.
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OBJECTIVE: Little is known about the effect of stimulant treatment in youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on the subsequent development of comorbid psychiatric disorders. We tested the association between stimulant treatment and the subsequent development of psychiatric...
Drug-induced myocardial infarction is not a common phenomenon and the underlying mechanism has been related with the coronary artery spasm in the majority of cases. It is mainly related to...
Burt Angrist, June Corwin, Barbara Bartlik & Thomas Cooper
Seven normal subjects received 0.25 mg/kg D-amphetamine orally, both after an overnight fast and again after a standard breakfast. Plasma levels, subjective and...
Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behaviour 2007 Jun-Jul;87(2):258-66
Lile JA, Kendall SL, Babalonis S, Martin CA, Kelly TH.
Accumulating evidence suggests that estradiol might be responsible for the enhanced response to psychostimulants sometimes observed in females. In this study, 10 healthy...
This document is a portion of the information that SWIM has written about amphetamine. SWIM hopes that the complete document will eventually be of a high enough quality that it can be submitted as the Wiki article for amphetamine.
Many of the sections that are incomplete in this document have...
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Psychopharmacology 2006 Nov;189(1):17-25
Kelly TH, Robbins G, Martin CA, Fillmore MT, Lane SD, Harrington NG, Rush CR.
RATIONALE: While the personality dimensions of novelty seeking and sensation seeking are associated with drug abuse vulnerability, the mechanisms associated with this...
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Journal of Psychopharmacology 2000;14(4):371-7
Corr PJ, Kumari V.
Individual differences in self-reported mood following either 5 mg or 10 mg d-amphetamine challenge were examined in order to test the modifying role of three factors of personality, viz., the Eysencks' psychoticism,...
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Originally published in Psychopharmacology 2007, Published online Nov 27
Hamida SB, Plute E, Cosquer B, Kelche C, Jones BC, Cassel JC
RATIONALE: (+/-)-3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ecstasy) is often taken recreationally with ethanol (EtOH). In rats, EtOH may potentiate...
Lisdexamfetamine dimesylate (Vyvanse; New River Pharmaceuticals/Shire), a prodrug of D-amphetamine, was approved by the US FDA in February 2007 for the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 2001 Mar;296(3):876-83
Kuczenski R, Segal DS.
The prescribed use of methylphenidate (Ritalin) in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has risen dramatically in recent years. The relative roles of dopamine,...
Qureshi A, Lee-Chiong T. Medical Clinics of North America. 2004;88(3):751–766.
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Although considered a passive process in the past, it is now known that falling asleep and passing through its various stages is an active process that is governed by certain groups of neurons in the brain....
Journal of Psychiatry and Neurosciences 2007 Mar;32(2):129-36
Leyton M, aan het Rot M, Booij L, Baker GB, Young SN, Benkelfat C.
OBJECTIVE: Midbrain dopamine transmission is thought to regulate responses to rewarding drugs and drug-paired stimuli; however, the exact contribution,...
RATIONALE: Methamphetamine (METH) and amphetamine (AMPH) are both abused psychostimulants. Although METH is generally accepted to be more addictive and potent than its analogue AMPH, there are no...
At the doses tested, caffeine, dextroamphetamine, and modafinil are equally effective for approximately 2–4 h in restoring simple psychomotor performance and objective alertness. The duration of these benefits vary in...
Individual differences in the positive mood and other subjective effects of d-amphetamine have been linked to personality traits related to sensation seeking. The current study extends these associations to separate...
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Drug and Alcohol Review. Abingdon: Jun 1998. Vol. 17, Iss. 2; pg. 187-196.
Niki Vincent, Jodie Shoobridge, Alex Ask, Steve Allsop, Robert Ali.
Phase I of this study was designed to inform the development of a range of responses to hazardous and harmful amphetamine use. Research techniques...
The present study was undertaken to compare the pharmacological properties of p-fluoroamphetamine with those of amphetamine and of other halogenated amphetamines, using several in vivo and in vitro tests. These included substitution testing in (+)-amphetamine (1 mg/kg, 5.4 μmol/kg, i.p.)-,...
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 2007 Aug;41(8):649-55
Silins E, Copeland J, Dillon P.
Growth of the antidepressant market and widespread use of the illicit drug ecstasy (methylenedioxymethamphetamine; MDMA) creates a need to delineate the potential harms associated with the...
Drug Metabolism and Disposition 2000 Mar;28(3):348-53
Law MY, Slawson MH, Moody DE.
The cytochrome P450 (P450) 2D subfamily catalyzes ring hydroxylation of amphetamines. We tested the hypothesis that P450 2D is selectively involved in amphetamine 4-hydroxylation. Urinary elimination of...
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Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behaviour 2007 Jun-Jul;87(2):289-96.
Vansickel AR, Lile JA, Stoops WW, Rush CR.
The results of controlled non-human animal and human laboratory studies are mixed regarding whether women and men respond differently to stimulant drugs. In order to assess...
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Six male college students were tested under two experimental conditions; amphetamine and no amphetamine. Each subject was tested three times under each condition. A double-blind placebo-controlled approach was employed and on six consecutive Fridays the subjects received either a placebo or 15 mg...
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Experimental Neurology 2006 Sep;201(1):24-31
Iacovelli L, Fulceri F, De Blasi A, Nicoletti F, Ruggieri S, Fornai F.
Amphetamine derivatives are the most commonly abused drugs. These compounds have been known for many years to induce neurotoxicity. However, recent findings have highlighted...