Study Drugs exams taking increasingly popular

Study Drugs exams taking increasingly popular

‘If long-term safety of study drugs and efficacy are proven in healthy people, it may well be, at least for certain segments of the population, these drugs will prove life-savers. Professor Barbara Sahakian, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge;

If study drugs become shown to be safe for healthy people, how will this affect exam taking and society?

If pupils are becoming regularly aut fait with If long-term safety and efficacy are proven in healthy people, it may well be, at least for certain segments of the population, study drugs will prove life-savers.

Will study drugs become de facto for ambition pupils in the education system?

This is nothing new. We have caffeine, the choice study drug for most people. Drink too much caffeine as most people have done at some point in their lives and the undesirable side effect of tremors are common.

Professionals, fatigued doctors risk making poor judgements and committing serious medical errors if over tired. Publishing in the Annals of Surgery, The University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry and the Imperial College London, Division of Surgery, has recently been discovered that the smart drug Modafinil improves cognitive flexibility and reduces impulsivity in sleep deprived doctors.

In brief : The study: Charlotte Housden (Cambridge) and Dr Colin Sugden (Imperial), 39 Drs were deprived sleep overnight and given 200mg of Modafinial or placebo. Those who were given the drug rather than the placebo showed brain function improvements such as flexibility in thinking and reduced impulsivity.

This brings up many ethical discussions. - should study drugs only be used with others who have disorders like ADHD, or Alzheimer’s Disease?

If they are safe to use, why not use them in healthy individuals to improve their working memory and improve mental agility? Exams like GCSE and A levels become a playfield for the study drugs. If these study drugs become de facto used both on healthy and adhd pupils, there is a chance of an apartheid.. Those who are not on them are punished in the exam results. We need to be concerned to have the health of children and adolescents mind at the centre of future studies. Especially as their brains are still growing. GCSEs and A levels are placed at a time of great changed in a child’s body. If study drugs become normalised we need to be very carefully about the long term affect it has on the growing brain.