Danish_Retard
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Neuroplasticity - Wikipedia
No, that's not at all what I have said, and I have no clue how you came to this conclusion lol.
Stimulants generally work by modulating neurotransmitters that are employed in regulatory pathways implicated in attention, arousal, motivation, task salience and reward anticipation.
Basically, if there was an orchestra filled with talented musicians it would still need a conductor to make sure that they all play together nicely, with ADHD this conductor is different, when you use stimulants it temporarily makes the conductor act more like one found in a neurotypical brain.
Basically, once the brain starts using those pathways they become more viable, think a filled jungle into a simple dirt path, despite it being "unnatural" for the brain to act in this way, but the more you use that pathway the better it becomes.
If you there to take this analogy to an opiod that increases serotonin, the pathways that are created are the ones that increased serotonin influence, so the result is not an increase in baseline serotonin once use has stopped, just like how when you use stimulants you don't release more dopamine and nor-adrenaline, instead the pathways their use has carved stays.
(slight, but irrelevant addendum, with prolonged use of stimulants your baseline for those neuromodulators (dopamine, etc.) will increase, so it will actually increase but not because of the mechanism above)
