Posts Tagged ‘modafinil’
Limitless evidenceless trend: The growth of nootropic supplements
_______ The all-too-understandable urge to buy a better brain (Vox): “… unfortunately, Bradley Cooper is partly to blame for the boom of the edible brain-improvement industry. In 2011, he starred in Limitless, a movie about a man who takes a special pill and becomes smarter and more capable than anyone else on Earth. I’m joking…
Read MoreGrowing awareness of the opportunities and risks posed by pharmacological cognitive enhancement (aka “smart drugs”)
. More research needed on use of ‘smart drugs’ by healthy people (Medical News): “Drugs such as methylphenidate and modafinil, marketed as Ritalin and Provigil respectively, are used by some healthy individuals in order to boost their cognitive performance, despite a general lack of knowledge about
Read MoreScientific critique of BBC/ Nature Brain Training Experiment
There has been quite a bit of comment about the Owen et al study in Nature available online on April 20, 2010. A quick synopsis of the study is that the BBC show Bang Goes the Theory worked with the study authors to provide a test of the hypothesis that commercially available brain training programs…
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