Good News For Recappers, Test-Takers And Pill-Popping List-Makers

“Modafinil is the world’s first safe ‘smart drug’, researchers at Harvard and Oxford universities have said, after performing a comprehensive review of the drug. They concluded that the drug, which is prescribed for narcolepsy but is increasingly taken without prescription by healthy people, can improve decision- making, problem-solving and possibly even make people think more creatively…. A new review of 24 of the most recent modafinil studies suggests that the drug has many positive effects in healthy people, including enhancing attention, improving learning and memory and increasing something called ‘fluid intelligence’ — essentially our capacity to solve problems and think creatively. One study also showed that modafinil made tasks seem more pleasurable.”