Ritalin boosts brain's efficiency

August 1, 2008 Diagnostic Imaging. Ritalin boosts brain's efficiency -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assuming you can do the math, your brain may operate more efficiently if you have first taken Ritalin (methylphenidate), a drug intended to help patients with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the Institute of Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health, and colleagues at the Brookhaven National Laboratory discovered that methylphenidate dramatically improves the efficiency of glucose utilization in the brain among some normal adults as they performed a mentally challenging test.

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