Hey, all, welcome back to the Real Life Pharmacology podcast. I am back to focusing on specific medications here for a little bit.

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All right, so the medication I want to cover today is modafinil.

Brand name of this medication is ProVigil.

This is classified as a central nervous system stimulant.

With that said, kind of that general classification also includes medications like amphetamines, for example.

So medications that can be used for ADHD and things of that nature.

In kind of a generalized scale, it's not always perfect to do it this way because a lot of

its dose dependence as well.

But generally, I would classify medication like modafinil, maybe a little less potent of a CNS

stimulant compared to, you know, some of the meds for ADHD, for example, like adderol

and things of that nature, methylphenidates.

So with that said, again, that's a relative scale based upon dose and other things included there.

But that's kind of my initial thought process when I think about this medication here a little bit.

So modafinil from a mechanism of action standpoints, it increases dopamine, but it typically isn't as potent as the amphetamines.

It does that by essentially blocking dopamine transporters in the brain, so it increases that dopamine

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