Sunday, November 16, 2014

‘Smart’ drugs won’t make smart people smarter

Our doctors need to answer the question. Would this drug help the cognitive performance of stroke survivors? Immediately post-stroke there was no way I considered myself smart anymore.
http://www.psypost.org/2014/11/smart-drugs-wont-make-smart-people-smarter-29406
One paragraph.
He said: “Our study backs up previous research that suggests psychostimulants improve people at the lower end of the spectrum in cognition whereas they impair people who are at the optimum level of cognitive function — healthy people for example. It looks like Modafinil is not helpful for healthy individuals and it might even impair their ability to respond and might stifle their lateral thinking, while people who have some sort of deficiency in creativity are helped by the drug.”

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