Andrew Huberman· PhD
children with ADHD who take prescription drugs that are sympathomimetics so yes as you've heard they are speed amphetamine is speed although I should say if they take Methylphenidate ritalin or Concerta or something of that sort that's not amphetamine nonetheless it's a stimulant it's a sympathometic also these are kids that are taking these drugs during development and therefore levels of dopamine levels of norepinephrine are being increased in their brain and body and you might say well wouldn't that lead to a craving for these things later in life and that does not appear to be the case in fact there's some very nice neuroimaging studies mainly positron emission tomography studies that I'll provide a link to in the show note captions that show the early treatment with these drugs actually leads to combinations of increased dopamine Transmission in the forebrain later in life at a lower level or a lower threshold I should say in a way that essentially says there's normalization of the circuits Across Time by the application of these drugs early in life again in the case of children that have diagnosed ADHD