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If I choose to use study drugs, I want to Mixing study drugs with over-the-counter cold medicines that contain decongestants increases the chance of developing high blood pressure or an irregular heartbeat. Lots of people who start taking study drugs think they're harmless — or they think they'll just use them once like to get through finals.
Study drugs can be just as addictive as street drugs, though. Over time, people who overuse stimulants can become dependent on them. If they try to quit, they may have withdrawal symptoms like depression, thoughts of suicide, intense drug cravings, sleep problems, and fatigue.
The health risks aren't the only downside to study drugs. Students caught with illegal prescription drugs may get suspended from school, have to pay fines, and even do time in jail. If you need to focus, there are better choices than study drugs.
Here are some proven ways to boost concentration and beat stress:. Reviewed by: Mary L. Gavin, MD. Larger text size Large text size Regular text size. What Are Study Drugs? Source: University at Buffalo. Search for:. Science Health Culture Environment. Share this Article. Beyer et al. According to the authors, 14 sleep-deprived subjects who take this drug have a subjective sensation of stimulation and subsequently overestimate their performance. To date, cognitive enhancers have been presented as a "double-edged sword": even if they could improve our lives, they could also be abused in an unethical manner.
However, there are those who defend the use of cognitive enhancers by healthy individuals. According to Harris , 10 given that the drug is considered safe enough to be widely used by children and adults with ADHD, even over long periods of time, and given that no drug is free from side effects, its use by healthy individuals ought to be permitted and legalized.
However, while use of cognitive enhancers in individuals with pathologies has many advantages for society, the situation is more complex for healthy individuals because the risks outweigh the benefits. Also, Norman and Berger 4 stated that although some studies have shown potential improvements in learning and memory after pharmacological manipulations it is not yet clear to what degree such manipulations of cognitive processes may also lead to undesirable side effects.
Therefore, despite the attraction of using cognitive enhancers, potential users should weigh up the pros and cons and bear in mind that these drugs were not originally developed for this purpose.
In summary, the present study sought to test the effects of varying doses of methylphenidate on different cognitive functions. The results are in line with recent findings in the literature showing that improved performance is typically observed only when cognitive processes are below optimal levels, which was not the case for the subjects evaluated in the present study.
We suggest that the impression of enhanced cognitive performance in healthy young people taking methylphenidate and justifying its use, may be due to improvements in subjective wellbeing promoted by the drug. Thus, greater caution and regulation of cognitive enhancers is suggested in healthy young people who take these medications despite having no clinical conditions indicating their use.
Based on our results, we believe that use of methylphenidate by healthy individuals is not justified. We further suggest that more studies be performed to confirm this view and that the results be widely publicized to increase the population's awareness of its lack of efficacy as a cognitive enhancer under these circumstances.
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Silmara Batistela. E-mail: moc. Contributed by Author contribution. Received Feb 7; Accepted Apr Copyright notice. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. ABSTRACT The so-called cognitive enhancers have been widely and increasingly used by healthy individuals who seek improvements in cognitive performance despite having no pathologies.
Objective: The aim of the present study was to test the effect of acute administration of varying doses of methylphenidate 10 mg, 20 mg, 40 mg and placebo on a wide range of cognitive functions in healthy young people. Methods: A total of 36 young university students and graduates participated in the study. Results: No differences in performance were observed on any of the tests. Conclusions: According to the recent literature, psychostimulant medications, such as methylphenidate, improve performance when cognitive processes are below an optimal level, which was not the case for the subjects of the present study.
Key words: central nervous system-stimulating drugs, ethics, nootropic drugs, performance enhancing substances, cognition. Open in a separate window. Table 2 Correct-answers, omission, action and reaction time measures on tests for selective, divided and sustained attention.
Table 4 Means and standard deviations for immediate and delayed recalls on test of logical memory. Table 5 Means and standard deviations for items on self-evaluation scale performed before experiment pre-treatment and after the battery of tests post-treatment. Acknowledgments Acknowledgments. Pharmacological cognitive enhancement-how neuroscientific research could advance ethical debate.
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