Doping for the brain: can we become smarter with the help of pills MOSCOW, 15 Nov — RIA Novosti, Alfia Enikeeva. Modern man increasingly difficult to cope with processing the ever-increasing amounts of information. Memory and attention today — the most valuable resource. In the hope of improving cognitive ability in the West often resort to drug neurostimulators. RIA Novosti understands what it is and whether or not pills to make us smarter. Healthy young people take drugs intended for treatment of the syndrome of hyperreactivity and attention deficit, sleep disorders, senile dementia and other neurological diseases. In Europe over the last two years the proportion of those who, not having medical indications, took a course of drugs that improve cognitive function, has grown from five to 14 percent. Most fans of “smart pills” in the United States — almost 30 percent of the population. These are the findings of
