Study drugs – can we enhance our performance?

Study drugs, smart drugs, memory or concentration pills… They are called in many different ways, but they all refer to “cognitive enhancers”, hence drugs that supposedly improve humans’ cognitive abilities. Several countries in the last years have recorded a significant increase of non-medically prescribed cognitive enhancers, especially among young adults.

In this week’s article, Jeremy Yeoh explained what these compounds are, how they work and when they are medically prescribed.

📖 To find out more, read our new article, it only takes 2 minutes:

Author: Jeremy Yeoh
Video: Ambra Villani
Illustrator: Marco Garbelli

Other languages available: Italiano (Melania Zofrea), Polski (Kamil Wolanin and Jacek Jabłoński), Deutsch (Adriana Hotz), Português (Filipe Oliveira Viegas) and Español (Alicia Abarca).

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