Showing posts with label Adderall and impaired memory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adderall and impaired memory. Show all posts

Sunday, September 2, 2018

ADHD Drugs BAD for Healthy College Students

  Neuroscience researchers at Brown U and URI found that healthy students taking 30 mg of Adderall daily did improve in attention and focus (as expected in those taking a stimulant) but that effect failed to translate to enhanced performance on a battery of neurocognitive tasks that measured reading comprehension and fluency as well as short-term memory.
  The investigators concluded that not only are individuals taking stimulants not benefitting from it academically but in fact they could be negatively affecting their performance.
Pharmacy (Basel). 2018;6(3).