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Chemistry Exhibition 2014

Please use this document to assist in structuring your Exhibition Inquiry Experiment.
Remember, you are compiling your Lab Notebook every day until Exhibition. In addition to your
Lab Notebook and Lab Report, you should have some sort of product from your Inquiry
Experiment.

Inquiry Experiment Design Process

You should begin by creating a document that responds to the following prompts:

Project Design:
Restate your Inquiry Question: Which pill works faster Bupropion or

Adderall?

Restate your Hypothesis: Adderall works faster.

What is the Purpose of your project? Our project simulates the body ingesting
pills, specifically Adderall and Bupropion, and we hope to find which pill
dissolves the quickest. We have chosen Adderall and Bupropion because even
though they are intended to treat different conditions, recently they have been
shown to also treat the other condition.

Please provide an outline of what you would like to investigate with your
project.

What will you do? We will take each pill and put it in a beaker five times
and it will either have Coca Cola, Monster, HCL, Soda Water, or H2O.
Each time we will put the beaker on a hot pate that stirs and we will time

how long it takes to dissolve.

How will you do it? We will do it in a chemistry classroom under a

controlled environment, and we will use beakers, pills, liquids, heat, and
science.

Why do you choose this investigation?My partner and I chose to do this

investigation because we were both interested in pain, the physical kind,
and we started to look at that aspect of pain when we stumbled over brain
pain and how strange it is which got us to where we are.

Please include a day by day schedule of what you will work on each day for the
following time period: I cant include this information until we are aware of our
supply limitations.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

12/8

12/9

12/10

12/11

12/12

12/15

12/16

12/17

12/18

What are the step by step Procedures you will take to investigate your Inquiry Question?
1. Grab all your materials. Identify beaker A and B and liquids 1-5.
2. Pour liquid 1 into beaker A. (Up to 125)
3. Place beaker A on hot plate.
4. Set hot plate to high on stirring and medium (4-7) on heat.
5. Gently drop one pill of Adderall or Bupropion into beaker A.
6. Start timer.
7. Let pill dissolve.
8. Stop timer.

9. Record results on data table.

10. Repeat steps 2-9 for every liquid and both pills. Wash beakers before putting in
new liquid and pill.
What Materials do you need?
- Two beakers
- A hot plate
- A timer
- Bupropion
- Adderall
- Coca-Cola
- Monster
- Soda Water
- Water
- HCL
What Safety precautions do you need to take?
- Wear goggles, apron or lab coat, gloves
- Done on a heat resistant surface
- Dispose of liquids properly
How will you make your Observations and record your data?

Liquid

Adderall

Time
Bupropion
(minutes:seconds
)

Time
(minutes:seconds
)

HCL
Coca-Cola
Monster
Soda Water
H20

How will you Analyze your data? Our analysis is based off what/ how the pill dissolved
and the time it took to dissolve.
What do you hope to Conclude? We hope to conclude Adderall dissolves the fastest in
all trials.
What will your final product be? We will probably create a presentation with videos of
what happened, plus we might recreate the experiment during our presentation if we can.
What will you Exhibit on Thursday December 18th? For a matter of fact, we will have a
powerpoint/video to show the night of exhibition.
What Research are you basing your Project off of?

Leslie Rouder Resource (10 Facts)

1. Many of of the adults spend years being treated for Depression.

1. Depression is the most common disorder with ADHD.

1. About 50% of all adults suffer with ADHD and Depression.
1. Depression is often a result of the struggles of having ADHD.
1. In some cases depression is the primary diagnosis and ADHD is the secondary.
1. A person with ADHD may experience dark moods.
1. Your dark moods often make you feel hopeless, frustrated, sad, angry, and unmotivated.
1. Dark moods are often experienced as a consequence of a negative trigger or
disappointing event and are relatively short lived.
1. When someone is depressed they often lose interest in activities they once enjoyed.
1. Depressed people often fall asleep fairly easy.

Taking Adderall for Depression (10 Facts)

1. Using a stimulant like Adderall for depression isnt very common.
1. Psychiatrists put patients through the ringer of SSRI,SNRI,Tricyclic, and MAOI
1. After they are put through the ringer then they need to get put on a psychostimulant.
1. Adderall is one of the most common, and most potent treatment for depression.
1. There was a test with 65 patients and 38 of the patients showed improvement toward the
Adderall and their energy levels and there overall psychomotor activity improved.
1. Psychostimulants work best for depression when Tricyclic antidepressants.
1. Most people who take Adderall see almost instant improvements.
1. Many people who take Adderall tend to be more confident.
1. Depression is associated with low energy levels, tiredness,and overall mental and
physical fatigue.
1. Adderall helps improve a persons focus.

Taking Medications (10 Facts)

1. ADHD is less common in adults.
1. Stimulants are most often used in addition to non-medication treatments
managed to help with your ADHD symptoms.
1. It can take weeks to get full benefits of some medications like Adderall.
1. Patients should talk to their doctor before taking medication like Adderall.
1. Patients should take their medication 1-2 times a day.
1. Patients should swallow the tablet whole because if they bite they could get
throat problems.
1. All dosages are different based off severity of ADHD and body type.
1. The most common side effect for taking Adderall is upset stomach, insomnia,
and mild anxiety.
1. The rare side effects of Adderall can consist of increased heart rate, severe
anxiety,panic attacks,hallucinations,etc
1. A serious side effect of Adderall would be death.

Wellbutrin Resource (4 Facts)

1. Used to treat depression.
1. Can improve mood,feelings, and overall well being.
1. It will help restore the balance of certain natural chemicals in the brain.
1. Wellbutrin may also be used to treat ADHD.
1. Patients shouldnt take it if they have seizures, all of a sudden stopped drinking alcohol,
and have a eating disorder.
1. It is a depression medication.

1. You should not take Wellbutrin with Zyban.

1. You should not chew pill, swallow it whole.
1. If you miss a dose you shouldnt try and make it up.
1. Taking Wellbutrin may cause you to break out in hives.

Bupropion to treat ADHD (10 Facts)

1. Helps focus but not nearly as much as Adderall but still close to the same.
1. Taking Bupropion may make you want to urinate a lot.
1. It can cause you to have a dry mouth occasionally.
1. It can also cause food to taste different or not as good as it used to.
1. Works amazing as an antidepressant.
1. Works much better for my ADHD than anything I have used before
1. Can help clear your mind.
1. Helps you feel calmer.
1. Can cause a possible side effect and possibly give you itchy and puffy skin.
1. It may cause your joints to become swollen, stiff, and painful.

ADHD in Adults (10 Facts)

1. Adults with ADHD do not usually believe they have the condition.
1. Stimulant drugs for children are usually the same ones for adults
1. Antidepressants are usually taken alongside or instead of stimulants.
1. Antidepressants target brain chemicals like dopamine and norepinephrine.

1. Detecting ADHD in adults is more than just tests it requires personal information from
relatives, friends, and/or colleagues.
1. Tricyclics are the best antidepressants in treating ADHD.
1. The most common symptoms that carry over from childhood to adulthood are
distractibility, impulsivity, and restlessness.
1. Most adults prefer to go to psychotherapy or some other counseling before trying
medication.
1. 30% to 70% of children remain affected with ADHD throughout adulthood.
1. Most adults dont consider ADHD as a reason for their problems like poor organization or
bad time keeping.

Adderall for depression, Livestrong (10 Facts)

1. Depression is the leading cause of disability in the United States in people ages 15 to
44.
1. When conditional medical treatments do not help the patient, physicians consider using
second-line remedies for much longed-for relief.
1. Depression has reached near epidemic percentages.
1. Typical depression is characterized by increased desire to sleep and physical
listlessness.
1. Adderall can help restore vigor and attentiveness.
1. While Adderall may not be the typical antidepressant, it may be prescribed to augment
one to reduce or alleviate incapacitating lethargy.
1. When taking Adderall, a tolerance may develop causing for an increase in supplement.
1. Suddenly stopping the intake of Adderall can trigger depression and severe fatigue.
1. Children and adolescents with pre-existing cardiac problems who took stimulants were
at increased risk for strokes, heart attacks, or sudden death from taking Adderall.
1. Very depressed people may lose hope for recovery but usually find symptomatic relief
with Adderall.

Adderall for Depression, Udemy (10 Facts)

1. Chemical depression is widely diagnosed and poorly understood.
1. Drugs for depression are commonly tricyclic, MAOI, SSRI, and SNRI.
1. Depression is understood to be a state of consistent lowered mood and self esteem and
lack of interest in and inability to enjoy activities that are normally pleasurable.
1. Most medicines that are prescribed for depression are designed to regularize and
potentiate the production and transmission of neurotransmitters.
1. Adderall is a combination of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, two variations of the
amine B ring.
1. Adderall alone is not regarded by most medical authorities as a stand alone treatment
option for Major Depression Disorder.
1. Adderall modifies the production, transmission, and reception of norepinephrine in
certain parts of the brain.
1. Anxiety is also now being treated with Adderall.
1. The effects of Adderall tend to be seen as profoundly prosocial by the mental health
community.
1. Adderall treats the symptoms of depression not the cause.

Does Wellbutrin help with ADD/ADHD? (10 Facts)

1. Wellbutrin leaves more dopamine in the synapse which aids in concentration.
1. Wellbutrin works best when it is aiding your ADD or ADHD medication.
1. Wellbutrin is claimed to sometimes help with anxiety and sometimes not.
1. Whether Wellbutrin helps or not is sometimes just based on what your body will accept
or reject.
1. It improves focus and reduces impulsiveness quickly.

1. There have been reports of nothing happening at all when trying to use Wellbutrin for
ADD or ADHD.
1. Some people prefer antidepressants over stimulants in treating ADD or ADHD because
they are not as strong.
1. The benefits from taking an antidepressant for ADD or ADHD take 4-8 weeks to get.
1. If your body accepts it, then Wellbutrin can help lower your dose of stimulant.
1. Most adults who report no effect didnt take it for more than a week.

ADHD and Depression: Common Bedfellows (10 Facts)

1. ADHD and depression commonly occur together.
1. On the outside, depression and ADHD have a lot in common like difficulty concentrating
or trouble sleeping.
1. ADHD is mainly lifelong and pretty much exist across every aspect of a persons life.
1. Depression comes and goes spending a sufficient amount of time not as depressed.
1. Its common for most physicians to diagnose a patient with depression and miss their
underlying ADHD.
1. Most people develop depression as they struggle through ADHD.
1. When primarily treating ADHD, most treatments simultaneously treat it and depression,
but when it comes to their medications people tend to take it one at a time.
1. If you are diagnosed with both depression and ADHD/ADD, then it is suggested to treat
your ADHD/ADD first.
1. Filling your life with positive thoughts can help improve your depression and ADHD/ADD.
1. Depression robs people of motivation and interest.

Please provide a sketch of your Experimental Setup (Please consider and explain the amount of
space you will need to conduct your experiment. Draw it out and list all items you will need: 1
table, 2 chairs, 3 beakers, etc)