Posted by novelagent on January 21, 2012, at 10:11:56
In reply to My doctor is putting me on Namenda for damage, posted by rjlockhart04-08 on January 19, 2012, at 19:43:41
> My doctor believes that I have brain damage from alcohol and amphetamines being used together and she is starting me on this medication the next time I see her.
> I am below average in some math and reading and IQ. I have an IQ of an 86. Which is borderline from being slow.
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> What will Namenda do for me???Not without cognitive remediation, which are brain exercises (try Lumosity.com). All the studies of cognitive enhancers demonstrate they do little unless there's something new being learned to flex the muscle of the drug at hand-- otherwise they're worthless. They need to be combined with these cognitive exercise, or they won't work.
For amphetamine abuse, your doc is a smart one, so be grateful. Namenda upregulate dopamine, the neurons amphetamine damaged, repairing the damage. If you were slow before amphetamine abuse, any damage done was damage you couldn't afford-- you didn't have much of a buffer zone to work with.
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