Provigil – Modafinil Information

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 modafinil.

It was originally designed for narcoleptics, but clinical trials stumbled across something odd: if you give it to non-narcoleptics, they become smarter. Their memory and concentration improves considerably, and so does their IQ. There were no known side-effects, except – oh, thank you! – weight loss.

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Just when Beth Hubbard should have been feeling great, her health fell apart.

A 34-year-old housewares designer in the St. Louis area, Hubbard had recently gotten married.

She liked the creativity of her career. And she’d conquered her mild depression and fatigue with a combination of exercise, rest and medicine, including the antidepressant Wellbutrin XL.

But in the fall of 2006, shortly after she refilled her prescription — her pharmacy giving her this time Budeprion XL, a generic version of the drug — her good health gave way.

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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 of the circadian rhythms. It happens when the body’s clock and the destination’s clock are out of sync.

Question: Then jet lag is more than a lack of sleep?

Answer: It’s definitely more than a lack of sleep. You can take a flight across the time zones, and even if you sleep you can still experience symptoms of jet lag.

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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 given pills to alter his mood.

At one point, an actor breaks from character to address the audience directly and advocate the use of Ritalin and Adderall, two over-the-counter stimulants, which, he says, helped him learn his lines.

The aside encapsulates a growing debate in scientific circles and living rooms across America: Should adults be using so-called “brain-boosting” drugs – normally intended to treat serious medical conditions – to improve concentration and performance?

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