People who take Ritalin are far more aware of their mistakes, new research shows.
Low performance error awareness has been associated with clinical syndromes such as Alzheimer’s disease, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and schizophrenia, and can impact an individual’s capacity to correct their behaviour, as well as their experience of delusions and paranoia.
Healthy individuals were administered a single dose of Ritalin, which was shown to promote a greater conscious awareness of performance errors. The research has drawn attention to the possibilities of pharmacotherapy treatments for psychiatric and neurologic conditions.
Read more at The University of Melbourne