Has anyone tried any of the "smart drugs" (nootropics)?

[guy123]

Not as a specific treatment for tics, but I'm curious if anyone who has tics/TS has used them and if there were any noticeable effects on tic severity.

[trggirl]

We tried DMAE on two occasions. The first time the teacher commented on how focused my daughter was that day. The second time which was a year later, my daughter sat on the couch and read for most of the day. She strongly dislikes reading so this was huge. I would like to give it a fair trial at some point.

 

Right now we are trying Aricept which increases acetylcholine by a different mechanism than DMAE. I'm not seeing anything yet but we are at a very low dose right now. I suspect the doc wanted to use this one because it has a lot of studies behind it. Just guessing though.

[guy123]

Did the DMAE have any effect on tics?

[trggirl]

I really didn't notice any.

[trggirl]

guy123, if you decide to try anything, I would really be interested in hearing the results.

 

On the ticcing with DMAE, there was a report in the 80's about a girl that was ticcing and given Deanol. Her tics supposedly stopped. I found that interesting.