Once the neurotransmitters are released, they activate the nerve cells of the spinal cord and brain to signal wakefulness, focus and improved concentration. When you take amphetamine, it causes neurotransmitters such as norepinephrine and dopamine to be released from the nerve endings in the brain and their uptake inhibited so the neurotransmitters will pool around the synapses of the brain. Before people knew it, meth addictions were on the rise. During the Second World War, troops in several countries such as Germany, US and UK used amphetamine to enhance their performance.īy the 60s and 70s, abuse of amphetamines began to increase and users started injecting the drug for a more immediate high. However, studies show that the medical practitioners at that time were definitely wrong. The drug continued to become popular since it was working and it was affordable and readily affordable and it was supposedly not addictive. However, in the 1930s amphetamine was being used for a number of conditions. At first, people never recognized the stimulant effects. In this article we will discuss this and more to help you understand and know what you are putting in your body.Īccording to reports, amphetamine was first synthesized in the year 1887 by a German scientist.
Or? And if they belong to the same family, why are both of them in Adderall? As you can see, dextroamphetamine has the word amphetamine in it so it should be part of the family. Pictured top of post: Caffeine for Mac in actionĭo you know of other apps for keeping the Mac awake aside from Caffeine, Amphetamine and KeepingYouAwake? If so, tell us about them in the comments.Are you wondering what the difference between amphetamine vs dextroamphetamine is? Probably, the reason for this is Adderall that is made up of these two. Wrapping it upįor me, Caffeine doesn’t quite cut it anymore and I don’t see any advantage to using it over Amphetamine, which I’ve been using happily for quite some time now. You can download KeepingYouAwake for free on GitHub. The most recent latest pre-release version of KeepingYouAwak comes with an experimental Notification Center integration. You can also deactivate it when your Mac’s battery capacity drops below a custom threshold. It also does everything Caffeine does but also is Retina-compatible and looks good in Yosemite’s dark menu bar mode. KeepingYouAwake is basically a wrapper around the “Caffeinate” Terminal command which can be used to alter your Mac’s sleep behavior. If you’re a believer in Apple’s official command line utility, you’re going to love this nifty utility. KeepingYouAwake, an up-to-date Caffeine clone The app is free and contains no ads or In-App Purchases.ĭownload Amphetamine at no charge in the App Store. You can even use custom notification sounds and customize Amphetamine with full AppleScript support. It can auto-deactivate itself when your Mac’s battery drops below a set threshold and re-activate when you connect the Mac to power. Amphetamine can automatically kick in upon yours connecting to a specific Wi-Fi network and will keep your hard drives and solid state storage awake, too.
You have numerous activation time presets at your disposal and can create your own, too. For instance, Amphetamine features system-wide hotkey support and supports scheduled activation and deactivation for specific times of the day. It basically does everything Caffeine does, and then some more. Oh, and if you’re unhappy with its menu bar icon, you can use your own custom icons for Amphetamine’s menu bar images. Amphetamine, a full-on Caffeine replacementĬreated by William Gustafson, Amphetamine supports high-resolution Retina displays, looks good in Yosemite’s dark mode and features a bunch of options to customize it to your liking. That said, I want to share with you a pair of apps that one-up Caffeine at its own game. Its icon, for example, is not Retina-compatible and looks odd in Yosemite’s dark mode. Yesterday, my colleague Anthony ran an informative tutorial that does a good job covering two ways to keep your Mac from sleeping, dimming or showing a screensaver: one is based on a little bit of Terminal magic and the other involves using a free of charge utility, called Caffeine.Īs easy to use as Caffeine is, it suffers from not having been updated in years so it has some issues with OS X Yosemite and El Capitan.