Amphetamine is an indirect dopamine receptor agonist and increases glutamate release in the striatum. Activation of group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) upregulates cAMP response ...

I've decided to create a new psychiatric disorder. Why not? Drug companies do it all the time. A once-personal struggle for self-acceptance and success has turned into contagious angst about a ...

Use of amphetamine and methamphetamine is widespread in the general population and common among patients with psychiatric disorders. Amphetamines may induce symptoms of psychosis very similar to those ...

Amphetamine may slow down the rise of temperature in the body and mask fatigue, which could allow athletes to run significantly longer but result in potentially dangerous overheating of muscles, ...

A recent JAMA Psychiatry study found that an ADHD medicine called lisdexamfetamine reduced the risk of hospitalization due to amphetamine or methamphetamine addiciton by 18% and 14% for deaths caused ...

The illicit use of amphetamines, the stimulants commonly known as ‘speed’, is linked to a 5-fold heightened risk of psychosis, finds a 10 year study published online in the journal Evidence-Based ...

A mouse strain has been developed that expresses low levels of the NR1 subunit of the NMDA receptor. These mice are a model of chronic developmental NMDA receptor hypofunction and may therefore have ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Apple will allow Amphetamine, an app that keeps Mac computers awake, to remain on its App Store, after a dispute with its developer over whether ...

“I was involved in a lot of burglaries,” the pretty blonde told Kansas City police, “and I couldn’t have done it without a shot. When you’re on that stuff, you just don’t care. I was even a prostitute ...

Jørgen G Bramness; Øystein H Gundersen; Joar Guterstam; Eline B Rognli; Maija Konstenius; Else-Marie Løberg; Sigrid Medhus; Lars Tanum; Johan Franck In this context, we hypothesize that the ...