http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-11-smart-drugs-wont-people-smarter.html
Warum Modafinil bei gesunden nicht zur Steigerung der Intelligenz hilft.
Die untersuchte Gruppe war allerdings sehr klein.
Dr Mohamed said: "It has been argued that Modafinil might improve your performance by delaying your ability to respond. It has been suggested this 'delay dependent improvement' might improve cognitive performance by making people less impulsive. We found no evidence to support those claims.
"Our research showed that when a task required instant reactions the drug just increased reaction times with no improvement to cognitive performance."
He said: "Our study backs up previous research that suggests psychostimulants improve people at the lower end of the spectrum in cognition whereas they impair people who are at the optimum level of cognitive function—healthy people for example. It looks like Modafinil is not helpful for healthy individuals and it might even impair their ability to respond and might stifle their lateral thinking, while people who have some sort of deficiency in creativity are helped by the drug."
Dr Mohamed said: "What I have found in my doctoral studies is that if you are already a healthy person and functioning at an optimum level, it is really difficult to improve your cognition. But the brain of the adolescent is still in development and you might be able to improve cognition at this stage of our development through positive interaction, healthy diet or mindfulness."
Medikament für Narkolepsie hilft: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/narcolepsy-medication-could-be-safe-smart-drug/
Medikament für Narkolepsie hilft: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/narcolepsy-medication-could-be-safe-smart-drug/
