Out of curiousity, how does the naming scheme for medicines?

>>7983439
Brainicillin.

It's random

>>7983440
That would be an antibiotic wouldn't it?

>>7983439
The people who discover it come up with a name for the base structure that's significantly shorter than the IUPAC name. Everyone knows that that structure refers to the substance of that IUPAC name. Prefixes are added to indicate modifications to that structure.

Since you mentioned amphetamine, amphetamine's chemical name is 1-Phenyl-2-propanamine. Methylated, it is (2S)-N-Methyl-1-phenyl-2-propanamine. Scientists know amphetamine refers to the first, so you stick a "meth" before it to indicate the methyl group.

It's for convenience and not to confuse doctors.

Medicine names are decided by focus groups to appeal to their target consumer-base. Usually the name is some sort of pseudo-latin derivative, like 'paxil'.

>>7983451
Not OP but, so the structure of the molecule is not encoded into the short name?

>>7983462
The generic name is based more on the class of drug than chemical structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_nomenclature

>>7983462

Sometimes it is but most modern medications don't incorporate the chemical name. For example, Phenibut is an abbreviation of β-phenyl-γ-aminobutyric acid. Paroxetine AKA paxil, is (3S,4R)-3-[(2H-1,3-benzodioxol-5-yloxy)methyl]-4-(4-fluorophenyl)piperidine, so there's not relationship at all.

Interesting. Does anyone know how brain chemistry could be affected to increase "creativity" Is that even something you can measure with brain chemistry? I mean you could increase endorphins to make someone feel more alert/active but to use that energy creatively seems like it would be another thing.

>>7983486

There's this term called 'lateral thinking' that I think maps to part of what is considered 'creativity,' basically it is defined as using reasoning to arrive at solutions that are not immediately obvious through conventional logic. They say marijuana enhances lateral thinking but it also makes you paranoid and anxious in the long run.

>>7983486
You said it was an ADHD drug, which tend to be stimulants. And jut speaking personally, caffeine makes my imagination go wild, so yeah it's entirely possible.
Don't talk about endorphins or brain chemistry in detail, you'll only look like an idiot. Stick to stimulants and nootropics, those are vague enough to buy into

>>7983521
>>7983664
I understand. I mainly was just curious for curiosity's sake I wasn't going to go into too much detail in the story. Just the name and a general description of how it works.