Good Morning

Oct 11, 2008 05:02

I do not like this vyvlase shit.  i didnt like XR in the first place, so it makes sense.  I need to be able to control my absorption rate myself (or at least better than this first pass metabolism stuff).  Ive been up all night trying to apply for jobs/ do my readings and prepare a presentation for thursday.  I got suspended from the warehouse for misshiping to many, so i actually have time and "energy", but I have not been a productive member of society this evening.  Ive done mainly looking at jobs and skimming papers and reading some abstracts.  T does so much on it, I think that steady state works perfectly, but I'm already offkielter in doing work, so this constance just raises me higher without skipping the bumps.  Or maybe I'm one of those people on the upper end of the dopamine curve (hmm, unlikely I think really).

To explain this, as had become folk knowledge, ADD is thought to be caused by a lack of dopamine in subcortical systems (the basal ganglia for one).  They have done testing adn shown the working memory load and other indicators of attention follows an inverse U shaped curve with respect to dopamine levels.  This means that when people with low dopamine levels are given exogenous agonists, there performance increases as they move towards the apogee of the upside down U.  But people who are already at peak performace (supposedly the average person) will actually have the same loss of attention when given the speed.  Especially for already high dopa peeps,as the curve gets steeper.

To conclude this presentation, I will say that while I do not feel qualified, I do think that my excitement over the brain will hopefully prevail and defeat said doubt.
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