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- From: bwhite@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (William E. White )
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,alt.drugs,alt.magick,alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Smart drugs (depression warning)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.044409.18568@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 04:44:09 GMT
- References: <1993Jan14.161238.10974@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1993Jan20.184144.6 <1993Jan22.180244.6329@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan22.180244.6329@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> aankrom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Anthony Ankrom) writes:
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- >About L-Dopa. I don't think you want to take this for a "smart" drug at
- >all. Quite the contrary. In fact L-Dopa has quite a bit of anticholinergic
- >effects. Certainly _not_ the action you'd want for a smart drug. In fact,
- >several purported "smart" drugs are cholinergics.
-
- Two things here ... first off, I imagine that excessive doses of L-DOPA
- would have rather, um, interesting effects; I'm not sure that cognitive
- enhancement would be a part of them, but temporary insanity might. :-)
- Remember, in general, if you dork with noradrenaline you'll also dork
- with dopamine.
-
- Second, many cholinergics (especially choline and other ACh precursors)
- can aggravate cases of endogenous depression. Since l-tryptophan is
- *still* not legal, you're SOL on this one if you've got problems. Or
- you could just eat turkey all day ...
-
- >St. Anthony
-
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