Health Sciences 2000A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Impulsivity, Executive Functions, Catechol-O-Methyl Transferase
17 Dec 2016
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A smart pills is a drug that increases the cognitive ability of anyone taking it, whether the user is cognitively impaired or normal. Corneliu giurgea proposed that smart pills should be developed to increase the intelligence of the general population. (cid:498)man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain(cid:499). Smart pills include synthetic and natural products that affect neurotransmitter levels, neurogenesis, and blood flow to the brain. Although many of these substances have their adherents, non have become widely used. Caffeine and nicotine may be exceptions to this generalization, as one motivation among many for their use is cognitive enhancement. To judge from recent reports in the popular media, healthy people have also begun to use mph and amps for cognitive enhancement. There is a trend toward growing use of prescription stimulants by healthy people for the purpose of enhancing school or work performance.
