Provigil & Ritalin: Brain-Doping at the Lab Bench

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 [...]

Why not use drugs for brainpower?

Remember all that hoo-hah over scientists using drugs such as Ritalin and Provigil for the very, very off-label use of boosting their brainpower?
Well, now the folks at Nature are at it again, this time with an opinion piece supporting the idea of brain boosters.
“we should welcome new methods of improving our brain function,” the authors [...]