How do ADHD and Adderall™ change the chemistry in our brains?
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Effects of Dopamine on the Brain
Vitamin looks and acts has so much similar in function to dopamine that your brain thinks, oh, this is dopamine. There's so much dopamine here. Fake dopamine is literally fake dopamine. It also somehow helps that part of the brain to start making its own. So I don't think it's actually synthesizing new dopamine. It's just taking old dopamine that was in there and saying, oh, we need to release this. We're not getting enough.
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