Are Smart Drugs the Answer to Bad Moods—and a Bad Economy? Discover

Link for this Post: Are Smart Drugs the Answer to Bad Moods—and a Bad Economy? by Sherry Baker in Discover Magazine.

This is a wide ranging article about "smart drug's" that covers a set of topics much broader than its title would suggest. Rather than excerpt one section and have you read the article. I will list a few of the highlights and then let you read it.

• Recently introduced attention enhancing drugs such as Provigal and Modafinil
• Current and future memory enhancement drugs including a group called the " ampakines"
• The creativity enhancing qualities of psychedelic compounds
• transcranial magnetic brain stimulations to produce novel states of mind for creativity
• Futurists and their interest in the potential of brain-changing compounds for future evolution

This is brief outline of an article that probably should be three chapters in a book with some words connecting the dots