{"id":123455,"date":"2021-06-05T14:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T21:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/adhd-drugs-can-affect-later-generations"},"modified":"2021-06-05T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T21:22:17","slug":"adhd-drugs-can-affect-later-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/adhd-drugs-can-affect-later-generations","title":{"rendered":"ADHD Drugs Can Affect Later Generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/adhd-drugs-can-affect-later-generations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of this male-specific effect, we investigated the effects of MPH through the paternal line and observed the same behaviors in several generations of their descendants not directly administered the drug.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><em>Summary: <\/em><\/strong><em>A new study of male guppies reveals behaviors affected by methylphenidate hydrochloride (MPH), an active ingredient in common ADHD medications, can be passed along to future generations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: <\/em><\/strong><em>University of Toronto<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By studying guppies, scientists at the University of Toronto and Florida State University found that behaviors affected by methylphenidate hydrochloride (MPH) \u2013 the active ingredient in stimulants such as Ritalin and Concerta used to treat ADHD\u2014can be passed along to several generations of descendants.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe exposed male and female Trinidadian guppies to a low, steady dose of MPH and saw that it affected the anxiety and stress-related behavior of males, but not females,\u201d said Alex De Serrano, a Ph.D. candidate in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB) in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science and lead author of a study published recently in <em>Scientific Reports<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBecause of this male-specific effect, we investigated the effects of MPH through the paternal line and observed the same behaviors in several generations of their descendants not directly administered the drug.\u201d Summary: A new study of male guppies reveals behaviors affected by methylphenidate hydrochloride (MPH), an active ingredient in common ADHD medications, can be passed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}