At 8:26 AM -0500 1/14/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello Listfriends,
>
>Greetings from the land of Hyper-employment!
>
>Some more questions that my students are asking and for which I believe I
>need help in providing good answers:
>
>2) Someone may have to direct me to the archives on this one - is it known
>exactly how the stimulant drugs improve concentration for ADD sufferers?
I don't think that it is _known_ ('tho there are theories), but my best
guess would be the same mechanism by which stimulant drugs increase
concentration for all individuals (why do over the road truckers take
stimulants? Not to be bouncing all over the cab, but to increase their
concentration on the road).
Amphetamine abusers tend to lock in on single tasks.
In other words, there is nothing paradoxical about this effect.
* PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
* Psychology Department 507-389-6217 *
* "The University formerly known as Mankato State" *
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