Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain

Rest in peace to all the college dudes covering the whole syllabus within 24 hours of the exam

It is always great to follow the instructions from a psychiatrist [1].

[1] https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/08/how_to_take_ritalin_...

I miss her.

There is much more to it.

There is such a thing as state-dependent memory or context-dependent memory: recall is better when the environmental context (e.g. location, lighting, smells) matches the context of learning.

If you study while on Adderall, which alters your neurochemical state (increasing dopamine and norepinephrine activity), you may recall that material more effectively when you are in the same neurochemical state, that is, also on Adderall.

Similarly, if someone learns something while sober, they will generally recall it better when sober again, rather than under the influence of a drug.

It is the phenomenon where memory recall is improved when the internal physiological or psychological state matches that during learning.

The comment above reduces the interesting article to a lacking one sentence summary. It is indicative of someone who is both too lazy to read something for themselves and for some reason thinks it is a good idea to admit this publicly.

Everyone has an LLM tool a couple clicks away if they want it, so I don't think we need this kind of contribution. And this summary is too much of a summary to be useful anyways.

Not a college dude, but i used to work on shits (including night shifts) and adjusting to and from a five-nights (23:30-07:30) shift isn’t that pleasant either.

What happened? Did they pass or something or just stop posting or what?

This is just outdated, bad and dangerous advice that a ton of recent research invalidates.

1. Ritalin, and other stimulants are not cognition enhancing for non-ADHD adults and may in fact do the opposite.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/smart-drugs-can-decrease...

2. > Because the doctor will rigorously apply artificial and unreliable diagnostic categories backed up by invalid and arbitrary screens and queries to make a diagnosis. So after this completely subjective and near useless evaluation is completed, your doctor should be able to exercise prudent clinical judgment to decide if Ritalin could be of benefit.

What else can you do for psychiatric conditions? We don't have a magic ADHD-o-meter but know that it statistically impacts lifespan, health, etc. Even for more objective measures like blood glucose, BP, BMI, clinical interventions are based on discrete thresholds that don't exist in nature.

I think you meant to say "...I used to work on shifts..."

That, or maybe try a laxative.

(Man, if ever there was a time I wanted emoji support on HN, this is it!)

TLP was doxxed in a way that threatened their real life psychiatry practice, briefly blogged on Tumblr under a different psuedonym, and has since had little online presence other than rare tweets and randomly dropping a self-published book on Amazon (_Sadly, Porn_ by 'Edward Teach').

You should be careful with your comment either. There is no absolute answer about people with non-ADHD don't having benefits with Ritalin.