(SUNY Downstate Medical Center) It has long been known that psychostimulant drugs have the paradoxical effect of reducing hyperactivity. But for more than seven decades, since the first experiment that gave an amphetamine drug to children diagnosed with behavioral problems, scientists have not known how stimulants work to control hyperactivity. Now, a researcher at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, working with colleagues in Mexico, has identified the probable mechanism by which certain stimulants accomplish this paradoxical reduction of motor activity. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)

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