Last year, I had my own brief experiment with smart drugs. I felt burned out after a series of long foreign assignments, and my brain was rustily chug-chugging along at half-speed. That’s when I first read about a drug being billed as “Viagra for the brain” – not Ritalin, but Provigil, a brand name for [...]
Travellers flying across time zones should expect to experience jet lag. The fatigue, upset stomach and disorientation that occurs is normal, says Dr. Andrea Meredith, assistant professor of physiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Question: Why do people feel so crummy when they move across time zones?
Answer: Jet lag. It is a disruption [...]
Taking stimulants like Ritalin, Adderall to improve concentration and job performance raises ethical questions.
It’s a play right out of the Twitter era and the family medicine cabinet. “Distracted,” at an off-Broadway theater in New York, examines the ever-shortening attention span of modern life – including the moral conundrum of whether a restive 9-year-old should be [...]
Last term, during Dead Week, a friend of mine had an exceptional amount of work to do. A paper due for this class, a project for that class, work until 10 p.m. – one night he realized it was physically impossible to finish everything he was supposed to.
So, he took Adderall – something he’d never [...]