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  2. Stimulant psychosis - Wikipedia

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    Stimulant psychosis is a mental disorder characterized by psychotic symptoms (such as hallucinations, paranoid ideation, delusions, disorganized thinking, grossly disorganized behaviour). It involves and typically occurs following an overdose or several day binge on psychostimulants , [ 1 ] although it can occur in the course of stimulant ...

  3. State-dependent memory - Wikipedia

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    Girden and Culler's research opened the door for further investigation of the influences of state of consciousness on an organism's ability to encode memory. Following this discovery, other researchers looked into the effect of different states of being on the ability to learn and remember responses or information.

  4. Stimulant - Wikipedia

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    Stimulants can affect various functions, including arousal, attention, the reward system, learning, memory, and emotion. Effects range from mild stimulation to euphoria, depending on the specific drug, dose, route of administration, and inter-individual characteristics. Stimulants have a long history of use, both for medical and non-medical ...

  5. Sympathomimetic drug - Wikipedia

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    The mechanisms of sympathomimetic drugs can be direct-acting (direct interaction between drug and receptor), such as α-adrenergic agonists, β-adrenergic agonists, and dopaminergic agonists; or indirect-acting (interaction not between drug and receptor), such as MAOIs, COMT inhibitors, release stimulants, and reuptake inhibitors that increase the levels of endogenous catecholamines.

  6. Nootropic - Wikipedia

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    In 2008, stimulants, such as caffeine, were the most commonly used nootropic agent. [15] In 2016, the American Medical Association adopted a policy to discourage prescriptions of nootropics for healthy people, on the basis that the cognitive effects appear to be highly variable among individuals, are dose-dependent, and limited or modest at ...

  7. Recreational drug use - Wikipedia

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    Use of stimulants may cause the body to significantly reduce its production of endogenous compounds that fulfill similar functions. Once the effect of the ingested stimulant has worn off the user may feel depressed, lethargic, confused, and dysphoric. This is colloquially termed a "crash" and may promote reuse of the stimulant.

  8. Effects of nicotine on human brain development - Wikipedia

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    [90] Adverse effects to the health of children is mostly not known. [103] Children subjected to e-cigarettes had a higher likelihood of having more than one adverse effect and effects were more significant, than with children subjected to traditional cigarettes. [103] Significant harmful effects were cyanosis, nausea, and coma, among others. [103]

  9. Psychiatric medication - Wikipedia

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    A stimulant is a drug that stimulates the central nervous system, increasing arousal, attention and endurance. Stimulants are used in psychiatry to treat attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder . Because the medications can be addictive, patients with a history of drug abuse are typically monitored closely or treated with a non-stimulant.