Psychostimulants including methamphetamine, cocaine, and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), as well some legally available agents in this drug class, have been tied to a significantly increased ...

Six weeks of treatment with methylphenidate did no better than placebo for improving cancer-related fatigue (CRF). The results continued a pattern of inconsistency in outcomes of studies investigating ...

A multi-institutional group of researchers describes (“Characterization of the brain functional architecture of psychostimulant withdrawal using single-cell whole brain imaging“) in eNeuro how ...

Headlines about America’s drug crisis have long centered on opioids such as heroin and fentanyl. But a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention paints a more complicated ...

Psychostimulants, including amphetamine-type stimulants and methylphenidate, are most often prescribed to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In ...

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) $15 million in funding will be made available to rural communities to combat psychostimulant misuse and related overdose deaths. An ...

WhiteSands Alcohol & Drug Rehab has released a new educational resource on its website examining current trends in “psychostimulant use, ADHD prescriptions, and their connection to substance misuse ...

“While this study doesn’t have direct clinical impact, it supports previous observations that psychostimulants affect brain function in children with ADHD not only when they’re faced with cognitive ...

Naturally rewarding stimuli (i.e. food, sex, etc) increase the activity of dopamine cells in the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system causing increased dopamine release in brain areas such as the nucleus ...