Does there exist some categorisation of Nootropics based upon how they work?
From reading through the Internet for a couple of days I have learned that AcetylCholine is an essential neurotransmitter involved in memory, cognition, sleep, and neuromuscular control.
Now it seems that there is a whole subset of Nootropics devoted to various stages of this mechanism. Sunifiram releases AC. Sarcosine. DMAE/DMEA. AlphaGPC, CentroPhenoxine.
And this is just one mechanism. It seems that there are several other mechanisms at work. There seem to be a set of Nootropics that promote hippocampal growth.
But if I follow any one of these from the ground up, I get lost in some Wikipedia article far before I can start to appreciate the place of this compound in the overall structure of how the brain functions.
Could anyone offer a rough bird's eye view of this terrain? Is it possible to list out the main mechanisms behind forming new memories, for example and then dig into the chemical process (and/or associated family of Nootropics) behind each mechanism?
I may be able to design my own stack more intelligently if I had such an understanding...
Does there exist any resource that takes a top-down approach to explaining.
