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General Discussion => Science & Nature => Topic started by: sam on April 17, 2010, 23:12

Title: Is Estrogen the New Ritalin?
Post by: sam on April 17, 2010, 23:12

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Big test coming up? Having trouble concentrating? Try a little estrogen.

Neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, report in a recent study that hormone fluctuations during a woman’s menstrual cycle may affect the brain as much as do substances such as caffeine, methamphetamines or the popular attention drug Ritalin.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-estrogen-the-new-ritalin

Title: Re: Is Estrogen the New Ritalin?
Post by: Clive on April 17, 2010, 23:17

I wonder if my quack will give me Ritalin?   :laugh:

Title: Re: Is Estrogen the New Ritalin?
Post by: sam on April 17, 2010, 23:21

you, anything! 

Title: Re: Is Estrogen the New Ritalin?
Post by: Clive on April 17, 2010, 23:33

 :haha: