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For quite a while now, the media has been awash with stories of miracle foods that they believe can enhance your memory and concentration and therefore improve intelligence. Very controversially
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posted at 22/8/2012 9:50 AM BST
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For quite a while now, the media has been awash with stories of miracle foods that they believe can enhance your memory and concentration and therefore improve intelligence. Very controversially there was the fish oil tablet study done on schoolchildren a number of years ago. |
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posted at 22/8/2012 10:13 AM BST
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Benzadrine is an amphetamine. Modafinil is an analeptic, with a number of applications, inc. military. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil#Military_and_law_enforcement Donepezil is cholinesterase inhibitor, indicted for Altsheimers. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donepezil (Yes, I had to look up the othe two) May I refer you to the song by Bert Jansch? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxedLNx6Q3I "When things go wrong each day You fix your mind to 'scape your misery, Your troubled young life Had made you turn To a needle of death" That was about heroin, but if you need drugs, more than caffeine, to get you through your life, then you need to change your life. I strongly suggest that this misuse of medication would be a mistake. John |
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Re: Cognitive Enhancing drugs... a use for students and doctors to cope with pressure and stress??...
posted at 22/8/2012 10:18 AM BST
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In Response to Re: Cognitive Enhancing drugs... a use for students and doctors to cope with pressure and stress??...: Benzadrine is an amphetamine. Modafinil is an analeptic, with a number of applications, inc. military. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil#Military_and_law_enforcement Donepezil is cholinesterase inhibitor, indicted for Altsheimers. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donepezil (Yes, I had to look up the othe two) May I refer you to the song by Bert Jansch? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxedLNx6Q3I "When things go wrong each day You fix your mind to 'scape your misery, Your troubled young life Had made you turn To a needle of death" That was about heroin, but if you need drugs, more than caffeine, to get you through your life, then you need to change your life. I strongly suggest that this misuse of medication would be a mistake. John Posted by John D Agreed!! |
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Re: Cognitive Enhancing drugs... a use for students and doctors to cope with pressure and stress??...
posted at 22/8/2012 11:33 AM BST
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Tom Simpson died on the Ventoux, trying to win the Tour de France by taking amphetamines, and brandy. Ampetamine use was rife in the military since world war 1, and was common place in le Tour for decades. How else would 'ordinary men' do such extra-ordinary things? Tom Simpson was open about his use of amphetamines for performance enhancement, to the point of showing anyone who'd watch that he was taking them on the start line. He collapsed half way up the Ventoux, struggle to his feet, got back on the bike, made it another 20 yards, collapsed again, and died, despite attempts to resucitate him. His last words were "Put me back on the bike". |
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posted at 22/8/2012 12:16 PM BST
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I personally do not think that cognitive enhancing drugs should be allowed to be used by doctors and medical students to cope with excess pressure. Instead they should be trying 'yoga' or other confidence enhancing & mind relaxing techniques. |
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posted at 22/8/2012 12:40 PM BST
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i think no benefit of cognitive enhancing drug for doctor.to cope with pressure and stress needs confidance and experienace |
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Re: Cognitive Enhancing drugs... a use for students and doctors to cope with pressure and stress??...
posted at 23/8/2012 5:14 PM BST
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Good topic, with increasing relevance. I find it hard to understand why the old performance enhancers, with their many adverse side effect are still being talked about. I believe there are many nootropics being looked into now, can we shift attention to those? Eg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetam |
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Re: Cognitive Enhancing drugs... a use for students and doctors to cope with pressure and stress??...
posted at 23/8/2012 5:53 PM BST
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Sounds like another excuse for using drugs, Benzedrine is Speed! It is long past due that med students stop crying about how hard it is to get through med school, funny how Lawyers, Engineers, and Physicists never seem to wallow in tears about the toughness of their PH.D programs. Some much harder in fact than med school. Drink coffee, study hard, and stop crying is the best advice. DuaneF |
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posted at 23/8/2012 6:11 PM BST
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Nootropics,eh? (Paging Dr.Odysseus!) You might better look at this Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootropic But also http://www.nootropics.com/ for a truely scary, evangelical promotion of a book that pushes these drugs in a haze of conjecture and semi-scientific hype. It is not reassuring that one of the authors is Dr.Ward Dean, who also promotes "oral chelation" with EDTA for heart failure ( http://www.heart-disease-bypass-surgery.com/data/articles/1.htm ), and who has no papers about nootropics in PubMed among the 26,000 listed, another is John Morgenthaler, a "medical nutritionist" who runs a "nutritional supplement company", and Steven Fowkes, another of the same ilk, whose work on 'curing Alztheimer's' is reviewed here: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/steven-fowkes-how-to-cure-alzheimers-and-herpes/ with the verdict, "he does not seem to understand medicine and the errors that occur when you jump from speculation to therapy without clinical trials." John |
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Re: Cognitive Enhancing drugs... a use for students and doctors to cope with pressure and stress??...
posted at 28/8/2012 9:36 AM BST
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In Response to Re: Cognitive Enhancing drugs... a use for students and doctors to cope with pressure and stress??...: i think no benefit of cognitive enhancing drug for doctor.to cope with pressure and stress needs confidance and experienace Posted by neuromedicine Agreed..
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