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 ...

A fascinating new book looks at how experimentation with psychedelics altered the course of American psychiatry.

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 ...

The objective of this study is to review and summarize available evidence regarding the impact of amphetamines on pregnancy, the newborn infant and the child. Amphetamines are neurostimulants and ...

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 ...

When you are an app developer in a walled garden, sometimes the walls start to close in. It doesn't even matter if if a useful app has been around for six years and attracted over 400,000 downloads ...

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 ...

Drugs are usually associated with vulnerable social groups. New research reveals that amphetamine, however, is used by some in physically demanding manual jobs -- to sustain long working hours. Drugs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...