Topic: Is Estrogen the New Ritalin?

[sam]

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

[Clive]

I wonder if my quack will give me Ritalin?   

[sam]

you, anything! 

[Clive]