Future of the Human Body
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Doctors are being asked increasingly by healthy people to prescribe Ritalin and other “cognitive enhancers” that boost their mental abilities—believing such drugs will give them an edge in the office or classroom. Treating genuine sufferers of Alzheimer’s or attention-deficit disorder this way is one thing, but no-one knows how such drugs affect the brain’s delicate chemistry over the long term. Will social pressures force the rest of us to medicate ourselves to compete and appear “normal”?
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Dr Colin Blakemore, head of the UK's Medical Research Council, discusses the social and medical implications of normal people taking cognitive-enhancing drugs, including even caffeine.
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