A young man I’ll call Alex recently graduated from Harvard.
As a history major, Alex wrote about a dozen papers a semester. He also ran a student organization, for which he often worked more than forty hours a week; when he wasn’t on the job, he had classes.
Weeknights were devoted to all the schoolwork that he [...]
By Julie Stachowiak, Ph.D., About.com Guide to Multiple Sclerosis
Let me start by saying that I don’t really endorse conducting a clinical trial with a study group of one (myself). I’m a scientist – an epidemiologist – so I love data and scientific evidence in the form of big, rigorous studies. However, we are lacking [...]
One year ago on April 1st, the World Anti-Brain Doping Authority (WABDA) released a statement that scientists would soon be the target of a crackdown on performance-enhancing drugs.
WABDA, backed by the Federal National Institute of Health (NIH), spoke of impending drug tests for researchers’ use of brain boosters like Provigil and Ritalin. The news spread [...]
A pill that makes you more intelligent, boosts your memory, improves your concentration and reduces tiredness? It sounds like the stuff of science fiction. In fact, it is already available, and academics in America and Britain have apparently been taking it for years.
Last week, John Harris, a professor of bioethics at the University of Manchester, [...]