As previously discussed, this makes caffeine
a powerful Central Nervous System stimulant and has been proven to improve alertness, decision making and cognitive processing, especially in a time of extreme stress or fatigue.
During the 1940s chemist Leandro Panizzon tinkered with the molecular structure of amphetamine, a
powerful stimulant in the
central nervous system, in hopes of discovering a nonaddictive substance to increase his wife Rita's energy and focus on the tennis court.