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The Effects of Methylphenidate (Ritalin) on the Neurophysiology of the Monkey Caudal Prefrontal Cortex.

Sébastien Tremblay, Florian Pieper, Adam Sachs, Ridha Joober, Julio Martinez-Trujillo

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Article in eNeuro. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Methylphenidate modulates motor cortical dynamics and behavior.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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  4. Methylphenidate as a causal test of translational and basic neural coding hypotheses.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Sébastien TremblayMontreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, H3A 2B4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6251-9797
Florian PieperInstitute for Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf 20251, Hamburg, Germany.
Adam SachsDepartment of Surgery, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, K1H 8L6, Canada.
Ridha JooberDouglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, H4H 1R3, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-3492-807X
Julio Martinez-TrujilloRobarts Research Institute, Departments of Psychiatry, Physiology and Pharmacology.
Douglas Mental Health University Institute · CAMontreal Neurological Institute and Hospital · CAUniversität Hamburg · DEUniversity of Ottawa · CAWestern University · CA

Funding

CIHR 501100000024
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Methylphenidate (MPH), commonly known as Ritalin, is the most widely prescribed drug worldwide to treat patients with attention deficit disorders. Although MPH is thought to modulate catecholamine neurotransmission in the brain, it remains unclear how these neurochemical effects influence neuronal activity and lead to attentional enhancements. Studies in rodents overwhelmingly point to the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) as a main site of action of MPH. To understand the mechanism of action of MPH in a primate brain, we recorded the responses of neuronal populations using chronic multielectrode arrays implanted in the caudal LPFC of two macaque monkeys while the animals performed an attention task (

Indexed as

AnimalsAttentionAttention Deficit Disorder with HyperactivityCentral Nervous System StimulantsDose-Response Relationship, DrugElectrodes, ImplantedMacaca fascicularisMachine LearningMaleMethylphenidateNeuronsPrefrontal CortexSignal Processing, Computer-AssistedVisual PerceptionCentral Nervous System StimulantsMethylphenidateattentionmethylphenidatemultielectrode arrayprefrontal cortexprimatesRitalin

Identifiers

PMID30847388
PMCPMC6402537
OpenAlexW2915562407

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Registered trials

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