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What if instead it's helium that is a slight stimulant?
by sergioisidoro 3y ago
What if instead it's helium that is a slight stimulant?
- jlawson 3y agoDo stimulants reduce reaction time? Waking someone up isn't the same as actually improving their performance.
- LoganDark 3y agoSome people can treat their ADHD using stimulants, and your reaction time tends to be better in that circumstance (citation needed though, I guess). IME, too much stimulants causes hyperreflexia, but I'm not sure if it's because of a decreased reaction time.
- AnotherGoodName 3y agoEssentially true by definition. If something is the norm then replacing that norm with helium and seeing enhanced performance isn't signal of the norm being restrictive. It's signal of helium being performance enhancing.
- adrian_b 3y agoThe effect of nitrogen varies with its pressure, i.e. with its concentration, while no changes are seen when the helium pressure is varied. This allows the conclusion that nitrogen has anesthetic effect and helium does not have stimulant effect. Because it appears that the anesthetic effect of inert gases depends on their molecular mass, being much stronger for heavy gases like xenon, it is possible that helium also has an anesthetic effect, but one that becomes noticeable only at higher pressures than can be safely tested.