Taken by mouth, nose or injection
Stimulant and regenerative supplements
Peptides, mushroom extracts and nootropics are sold as regenerative or cognition-enhancing, often outside any medicines regulator. They are the easiest of all these treatments to start and the hardest to evaluate, because almost nothing about them has been tested in children.
If everything on conventional care is not yet fully in place, that is where the next decision belongs — not here.
Peptide preparations
Two quite different things share this word: prescription neuropeptide preparations used routinely in some countries, and an unregulated wellness trade. Neither has good evidence in children.
Cerebrolysin, Cortexin, Semax, and “peptide therapy” sold by wellness clinics
Early research onlyMedicinal mushrooms and nootropics
A research band worth watching, and a supplement shelf to approach carefully. Some of these compounds have real laboratory interest; almost none has been tested in children with neurological conditions.
Lion's mane (Hericium erinaceus), reishi, cordyceps, citicoline, piracetam, psilocybin