Why is that medications available for narcolepsy include stimulants and depressants?
Well, the pathology of narcolepsy is rather variable for one thing. I seem to recall that in some forms of it, several stages of sleep are utterly absent – in these cases, for utterly unknown reasons, Xyrem is the definitive treatment – with an enormously high success rate. Even with its cost, it’s gushed about by users and In the vernacular language, stimulant and depressant are kind of vague terms. Modafinil for instance, can’t be pigeonholed as a stimulant in with the amphetamine-like drugs. It doesn’t act like them at all. Categorizing the antidepressant drugs as depressants is flat out incorrect, both in terms of their effects and their pharmacology. If anything, their primary mechanism of action is more similar to stimulants, albeit on different neurotransmitters. Remember, the brain isn’t like the volume knob on a stereo – stimulants don’t just turn it up, depressants don’t just turn it down. Realistically, we’re looking at altering the function of specific systems inside the br