Piracetam or Aniracetam? | ADHD Information

This is an old post but I do not see piracetum listed anywhere here...  I have two sons adopted from Russia and have found information on other sites that piracetam and choline can be hugely helpful for kids who come from trauma or were exposed to alcohol in eutro.  I was hoping to look at someone elses experience...
Piracetam is the original nootropic drug, for which the category was first defined. (68) Piracetam is one of the least toxic drugs ever discovered: "Piracetam is apparently virtually non-toxic .... Rats treated chronically with 100 to 1,000 mg/kg orally for 6 months and dogs treated with as much as 10 gm/kg orally for one year did not show any toxic effect." (77) For a human equivalent, 10 gm/kg would be 700 gm (11Ú2 pounds!) for a 70 kg (154 pound) person. Piracetam has been shown to improve memory, EEG, alertness and mental performance in a wide variety of human clinical studies. Piracetam restored normal EEG and state of consciousness in people suffering acute and chronic cerebral ischaemia (decreased brain blood flow). (78, 79) Piracetam has improved alertness and IQ in elderly psychiatric patients suffering from "mild diffuse cerebral impairment." (80) Piracetam increased memory and verbal learning in dyslexic children, as well as speed and accuracy of reading, writing and spelling. (81,82) Piracetam has improved mental performance in "aging, non-deteriorated individuals" suffering only from "middle-aged forgetfulness." (83) Elderly outpatients suffering from "age-associated memory impairment" given Piracetam showed significant improvement in memory consolidation and recall (84), and as Smith and Lowrey note in a study on concentration in elderly subjects, "Concentration is intimately involved in the process of reception, storage, and recall [of memories]." (85) Like Vinpocetine, Piracetam reversed typical EEG slowing (which mimics the EEG of the ADD brain state) associated with normal and pathological human aging, increasing beta (fast) EEG activity, while simultaneously increasing vigilance, attention and memory. (86) In a 1987 study, Grau and co-workers fed rats i.v. radioactive deoxyglucose to help measure brain metabolism. Compared to saline controls, Piracetam rats had a 22% increase in whole brain glucose metabolism, while the increase in 12 specific brain regions ranged from 16 to 28%. The increase in brain energy metabolism occurred under normal oxygen conditions. (87) And remember - decreased brain energy metabolism equals reduced focus and attention, while increased brain energy metabolism equals enhanced focus and attention.

Typical Piracetam dosages range from 800 - 1600 mg 2 to 4 times daily. Piracetam may (very rarely) cause headache, insomnia, over-stimulation or irritability. This is most likely to occur in heavy caffeine-users, or those taking high doses of other nootropics. I have personally used Piracetam continually for 12 years and have never noticed any side effects from it. Along with Vinpocetine, it is one of my favorite concentration-enhancing drugs.

Here is what I found on a website that quotes Dr Amen as well... Very interesting.  The only side effect I was able to find is that amphetamines may work better and you may need less. 

Going to take another shot at this and see if anyone has heard of or has used either of these.  They are what sound to be some of the first generation of nootropics, there are some much newer ones but they are still being tested in clinical trials.  Really sounds like another gimmic, but I'm at the point where I will try almost anything once, if no other reason than to say I know first hand that it dosen't work.  Got a small amount that should be here sometime next week, I'll update everyone next week sometime. Here is a sight that I have found some of the best information on

http://www.1fast400.com/?ingredients_id=41

Granted, its on a site that sells it, but I have read plenty of other information on it and even some clinical studies and this is one of the better sources of information.

Package got here on tues afternoon.  Got a little overambitious and took a heafty dose without easing into it.....and got a pretty nice headache out of the deal (althought I get headaches pretty frequently anyway).  Focus seemed like it may have been a little clearer but with the migrain it was hard to tell.  The first day was just Piracetam and it was somewhere around 4.8 grams.  Next day I dropped it down to 2.4 in the am and then another 2.4 at noon.  No headache and felt pretty good.  Focus seemed fairly better, nothing world changing, but definatly enough to be worth using.  Only got a min to write now, I'll write more about the rest later.