Have you ever imagined a pill that would help in staying focused and sharper than you used to be? Smart Drugs will do. Smart drugs have been widely used and recommended over the world especially by students, doctors and well known successful people. The smart drug is a prescribed-only pill that enhance the brain power to improve the attention, vigilance, memory and numerous several forms of cognition abilities in healthy individuals. Neuro enhancer drugs are also effective in treating depression and other psychological issues. These drugs are not used for their original medical purpose but for boosting brain power. Although, it is widely believed that drugs generally raises many ethical issues related to safety, coercion, and distributive …show more content…
According to the article “Brave Neuro World”, McFedries describes the advantages of the smart pills for healthy people. The author explained reasonably why many individuals agree on using these pills. For example, people may feel that they don’t have a sharp memory as they used to be. Therefore, they prefer a brain hosting pill in order to uplift the brain’s sharpness. People may argue whether it is worthy to use these drugs or not. Smart pills showed many satisfying results from many users and doctors. One of the used pills is called Provigil that is known in the United States of America is a medicine used to improve the wakefulness of daytime sleeping due to narcolepsy or sleep apnea or for individuals who have odd working hours such as night shifts. Provigil “Brain Viagra” has been used around 15 years and it is only approved in the United States of America. However, people use Provigil to stay focused and alerted. Referring to the article “Provigil: The Secret to Success?”, the author focuses on Modafinil (as known as Provigil) and how does it effect many people positively. One of the examples mentioned was Dave Asprey, the well known successful executive of a billion-dollar Internet security FIRM, who starts his day at 4 a.m with one pill. Asprey’s job requires being fully alert, fully focused, and fully present all the time and he admitted that he would’t succeed without using this incredibly magic pill. Asprey has been using this pill daily for more than eight years. Another example is John Withers, a computer programmer, who writes codes for continuous hours. More other successful stories were mentioned by the author proving how Provigil pills are effective. These are few examples of many who were using these drugs and helped them in performing better in their
In each of the three essays, “The Pain Scale” by Eula Biss, “Gray Area: Thinking with a Damaged Brain” by Floyd Skloot and “Notes from a Difficult Case” by Ruthann Robson, each of the main characters in the stories deals with a severe medical condition and their experiences that coincide with their disease. Each of these essays all have certain characteristics that are similar, but are still very different in their own way. In “The Pain Scale”, Biss discusses the idea of pain along with the concept of zero. She talks about her experiences of going to the doctor’s office and being asked her level of pain.
In the Educational Leadership article entitle “The Boss of My Brain”, authors Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers examines the explicit instruction in metacognition. Researchers stated that “explicit instruction in metacognition puts students in charge of their learning.” It was also stated that “meta-cognition supports learning by enabling us to actively think about which cognitive strategies can help achieve learning, how we should apply those strategies, how we can review our progress, and whether we need to adjust our thinking.” I believe this a unique teaching tool for teachers to implement with their students. With the use of metacognition, students whether they are struggling learners or gifted can learn how to use a variety of cognitive strategies to help improve their learning.
What Is Cognishield? Cognishield is a type of nootropic supplement. It works by enhancing concentration, memory and brain function. Nootropics are often referred to as smart pills, brain enhancers or neuroenhancers. There are conditions that have to be met in order for a supplement to be classified as a nootropic.
Non-compliance risk factors in elderly with prescription medications and OTC medications instruction can quickly cause safety concerns with the elderly. Factor that can increase the risk for non-compliance for the elderly are: financial concerns, knowledge deficits, cognitive and sensory changes, the use of multiple mediation, physiological changes related to aging, and drug testing methodology. • The elderly with cognitive and sensory limitations are at risk of confusing medications and keeping track of multiple medication with daily use. A good intervention to keep track of medication is a daily week pill divider container.
Several students today use drugs to perform their best, when It comes to school exams or just assignments. In the article “Do study drugs Breed a Nation of Winners or – Cheaters?” The writer David Sack criticizes the new phenomenon called “study drugs”. It is called a critical article.
It was however very helpful in providing me with an understanding of how drugs taken by humans especially for the purpose of mental health affect different areas of the body and the anticipated side effects of each. Through having such knowledge also, I am better able to work with the clients I serve in monitoring the progress of the therapeutic effects of the drugs they are taking during treatment. Additionally, by familiarizing self with the different classes of drugs, will allow me to become more vigilant in recognizing the purpose the drug/s are being taken by clients immediately after hearing or seeing
The idea was to unlock a part of your mind through these drugs to ultimately make you find a better version of you. This project was created to help criminals and substance abusers not revert back to bad habits. They would open up their minds to the changes and find something better for themselves instead of the patterns that they were stuck in. This was the whole point to the Harvard Psilocybin Project. It was started from good intentions to something that
This pill is a more natural approach if the patient would not like to take the prescribed
Nootropics, also known as smart drugs or cognitive enhancers. They are supplements that are to help in improving brain functions, such as memory retention, memory enhancement and also to help in improving focus among others. It is undeniable that, the world has become busy than ever, making stress and brain health a common problem. This has led to the need for a quick solution. Even though majority tend to concentrate more on the negative effects, but there are safe smart drugs that are effective.
“Performance-enhancing drugs absolutely give athletes advantages in strength and endurance, which helps them both in the preparation for their sport as well as the actual implementation of the skills needed in many ways for the different sports.” (Argintar) Anything that can make an athlete better in an unfair way that can not be done by all athletes should not be allowed, especially something this harmful. Anything that is not worked for and earned should not be given in the form of a pill. This also lessens the actual wonder of an amazing athlete that is not doping, because due to the amount of people doping today we just tend to assume they are using something they should not be using to be that athletic or
Drugs are good in some cases but some arnt, The athletes use the drugs illicitly to increase alertness, competitiveness, responsiveness, and weight loss. However, side-effects of the drugs include addiction, aggression, anxiety, hypertension, brain hemorrhage, coma, convulsions, dehydration, heart attacks, insomnia, stroke, tremors, and even death. People shouldn't be able to use enhancing drugs to make them perform better. These drugs make athletes more likely to have side effects, Its not fair game play either because if someone is taking something
Some think that drugs can bring them power that is inaccessible within their physical limits. In
There's a lot of controversy out there in regards to mental training tech. It doesn't help that there are some apps that claim to help, but actually don't. By weeding through the good tech and bad , one will find that science has in fact proved that one can increase intelligence. Your brain can work faster and you solve problems easier with a little bit of work. The middle-aged mind does not have to be in decline.
Cinematography is a combination of techniques used to describe the emotions and mood in films. Cinematography includes camera shots, angles and lighting. A Beautiful Mind and The King’s Speech are biotic films this depicts the life of an important historical person. A Beautiful Mind emphasizes the inner struggles of a man who has schizophrenia.
Though scientists have learned much over the last century about the inter workings of the brain. That number pales in comparison to the amount