very interesting, have you had the chance to try ketamine? Not sure about its noot potential though, but a wonderful drug
In subthreshold/very small doses ketamine is wonderful in a cognitive enhancement sense, it can bring about interesting & insightful changes in perception. I used small doses as an aid for meditation type activity a few times. It's also good as a withdrawl aid and to reset drug tolerances. (memantine and iboga are much better).
As an aside, "cinnamyl-ketamine" (possibly erroneous nomenclature) which forms at room temperature by condensation of cinnamaldhyde and ketamine (specifically the aldehyde binds to ketamine's nitrogen) is very interesting.
On its own, cinnamaldhyde is an adrenergic stimulant and these properties contribute to the newly formed molecule. It's possible each bonded cinnamaldhyde increases the bioavailability of the new molecule too.
This concept works with many aldehydes (anisaldehyde, benzaldehyde, acetalaldehyde etc).
Cinnamyl-piracetam is very nice - mental cognition and body stimulation.
This could result in the creation of very novel (and potent) molecules so be careful.
I imagine cinnamyl-memantine would be interesting!
The cinnamaldhyde and benzaldehyde abducts of octopamine are potentially pure dopamine TAAR agonist and norepinephrine TAAR agonist respectively. Ie reversal of the DA/NE transporter.
Mechanism of TAAR (wikipedia):
Amphetamine and similar "releasing agents" are able to reverse the transport direction of monoamine transporters through the activation of an intracellular receptor, trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1), which is located within the axon terminal of associated monoamine neuron.[1] TAAR1 signals through protein kinase A and protein kinase C to phosphorylate monoamine transporters. Dependent upon the phosphorylating protein kinase, the phosphorylated transporters will either reverse transport direction, causing neurotransmitter efflux and reuptake inhibition, or withdrawal into the cytoplasm, causing only reuptake inhibition.[1] Amphetamine is also known to release the vesicular stores of monoamines in monoamine neurons through VMAT2, although the precise mechanism has not been established.
I digress..
Edited by sativa, 04 May 2016 - 10:22 PM.