#453: Nick Gant, PhD – Cognitive Performance: Impact of Caffeine, Nicotine & Creatine (Rebroadcast)
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Is There a Difference Between Stimulants and Antidepressants?
By and large the adenosine antagonism is there is seems to always be the main mechanism. There are other things that we call we use and we test in this lab I do some commercial work with people looking for the next big brain food psychotropics but their effects are usually subtle compared to the stimulants. The pharmacokinetic response so it's quite important because it leads to the peak the time at which the peak level occurs within the blood and central nervous system as well as how quickly they're metabolizing expelled from the body. Now there's a whole number of other factors that are probably more important than that how healthy and big your liver is and there are some factors now involved
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