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February 17, 2012 at 8:39 am
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Caffeine and Ritalin are both stimulants but they work on different parts of the brain (I think).
In my limited experience to date, caffeine makes me more hyper but able to focus but Ritalin calms be down so acts more like a sedative. Don’t see why it would be different in a child than an adult?
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