Re: Performance enhancement with selegiline

From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 17:50:51 MST

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    gts wrote:

    >this is probably a good time for me to mention the most
    >surprising and unusual benefit that I *personally* have experienced from
    >this drug:
    >
    >Immediately, literally on the day of my first 1 mg dose, I noticed a
    >dramatic improvement in my ability to understand the lyrics in music.
    >Lyrics that had previously been lost in the loud background
    >instrumentals suddenly became discernible to me. Popular tunes that I
    >had heard and enjoyed literally hundreds of times over the years on the
    >radio, but without understanding most of the lyrics, suddenly made
    >lyrical sense to me. Moreover my general appreciation of music improved
    >along with my ability to understand the lyrics. This increased ability
    >to appreciate lyrical music was entirely surprising to me.
    >
    I have to back this up; our own study reports an increased acuity in
    both audio and (slightly) visual processing in the subject on
    Selegiline.. Interestingly, MRI shows increased activity in the temporal
    lobes when listening to music, but only...get this!...over a certain volume!
    Ramonsky



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