Drugs may boost your brain power

Mon, 04/16/2007 - 18:34 - NLN

The British government is assessing the impact of a new generation of drugs that are claimed to make people more intelligent. The Department of Health has asked the Academy of Medical Sciences to assess these so-called "cognition enhancing" drugs, some of which are already being widely used in the US.

One of these drugs, Modafinil, was developed to treat people who involuntarily fall asleep.

The drug is among a new class of cognition enhancing drugs. Professor Gary Lynch, from the University of California, Irvine, helped invent another class called Ampakines, designed specifically to increase memory and cognition.

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