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 [...]
More and more students are taking ‘smart pills’ to help boost their results in exams — but are they safe, asks Tariq Tahir in ‘The Times Online’.
Gemma is a recent Oxford University graduate. As a student of experimental psychology, she wrote three essays a week, in addition to spending 40 hours in lectures and labs. [...]
By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News
Reviewed By Michael W. Smith, MD
What’s wrong with healthy people taking brain-boosting drugs? Nothing, seven leading scientists and ethicists announced this week, (first published December 2008).
Polls suggest that as many as one in five scientists already take brain-boosting drugs — usually the stimulants Ritalin, Adderall, or Provigil.
And there’s [...]