SMART DRUGS

Brain Boosters

Your Ampakine-enhanced future is at least a few years off. For now, these "smart drugs" may be your best bet

Ginkgo biloba

The Brain Claims:
Extract of the ginkgo tree has been used in Asia to treat all manner of physical and mental ailments for at least 1,000 years. The foul-smelling ginkgo—at 200 million years old, its the oldest living species of tree on Earth—is also purported to improve circulation in the brain, supposedly improving cognitive functioning and helping prevent neuron decay.

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Should Science Make Us Better Than Well?

One preeminent scientist tackles the moral and ethical issues that come with the business of genetically enhancing our biology.

The point of medicine is to make sick people “well,” which is really just

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