Methylphenidate
Methylphenidate
- Category
- pharmaceutical · Stimulant
- Record
- specific compound · in current use
- Identifiers
- CAS 113-45-1
- Aliases
- MPH
Stimulant. Appetite and growth effects at therapeutic doses are recorded separately from experimental mitochondrial findings, whose relevance at therapeutic human doses is uncertain.
Flags: pharmaceutical
Phase-1 numbers are seed hypotheses. They are not curated consensus, not a toxicity total, and not a statement of human risk. Association is not written as causation.
| Context | Life stage | Type | Dose metric | Real-world relevance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Children prescribed methylphenidate Therapeutic paediatric dose. Mitochondrial rows must not be read as this context without better evidence. | childhood | therapeutic | prescribed dose | high |