Pros And Cons Of Brain Boosters

Technology nowadays always use to have so much information at our fingertips, but is this a good thing? That is what Jamais Cascio’s “Get Smarter” and Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stoopid?” both discuss; they specifically address the effects that new technology, such as the internet, has on the way humans think. The difference is that Carr argues that this new technology is making us stupid while Cascio argues that it is making us smarter. Nicholas Carr’s article discusses the negative effects of the internet and technology like it. It specifically mentions slight changes in the way people do things because of the influence of technology and gives many historical and anecdotal examples. Jamais Cascio’s article is about the advancements of technology and how it is makes people smarter. Cascio talks about Twitter, mental enhancement drugs and AIs, focusing a lot on the benefits of the advancements.

The unattributed article “You Can Grow Your Intelligence,” published in Health and Science magazine, reports that new research shows scientist have discovered that a brain can get stronger and people get smarter if they learn new things and practice. The brain is compared to a muscle in that if it is exercised, it will get

Do you support the findings of whole brain research? If not, what problems do you see?

After the BBC experiment many websites and doctors started examining the breakthrough study. The aforementioned website also states that “The results were startling. Individuals paced neurotically in their cells, and some reported visions of oysters, zebras and tiny cars. Psychological tests administered before and after the ordeal demonstrated significant declines in subjects’ intellectual faculties on the one hand, and increases in suggestibility on the other. (University, 2011)”

After the BBC experiment many websites and doctors started examining the breakthrough study. The university article also states that “The results were startling. Individuals paced neurotically in their cells, and some reported visions of oysters, zebras and tiny cars. Psychological tests administered before and after the ordeal demonstrated significant declines in subjects’ intellectual faculties on the one hand, and increases in suggestibility on the other. (University, 2011)”

The article “Jumper Cables for the Mind”, written by Dan Hurley, concerns a solution to improving the human mind by sending small amounts of electrical currents to the brain. The author undergoes the experiment in which he is constantly receiving electrical currents to the brain for 10 minutes. After each time he received the electrical experiment Hurley would be put in front of a screen and have a minimum amount of time to hit the correct key that is shown of the screen. The treatment is said to be able to increase the brain function and help people focus, learn new materials, and reduce the risk of strokes. The author is trying to push the experiment, so that it can be in full effect, but the FDA doesn’t approve of the experiment and deems it to have dangerous effects if done wrong.

There has to be a line draw somewhere and that might be it. Improving the brain abilities may be something that everyone wants but the consequences is something that people should consider. The greatest invention is the smartphone: everything you need in the palm of your hand. One advantage to the smartphone was the ability to program into the phone birthdays, phone numbers, important dates and etc. We longer have to think twice about these things the phone will alert you when needed. The famous saying is use it or lose it. I can google anything my heart desires and it is there with the touch of a button. However, with the information being so readily available I don’t have to work to obtain it and I typically loose the information shortly after viewing it. Since, I don’t have to do extensive research that information doesn’t stick in my brain. It is harming or stopping the learning process. In the end it is causing

You wouldn't like it if you had a below average IQ level, would you? Well, that was the case for Charlie Gordon, a thirty-two year old man with the below average IQ of 68. All Charlie wanted was to become smarter and understand. He got the opportunity to participate in a scientific operation to see if you could surgically increase someone's intelligence. This raises the question of whether or not it is right to try to increase the intelligence of a person if the outcome is unknown. Ethics are ideas that guide people in their daily life of deciding what is right or wrong. They are centered around the virtues of honesty, compassion, and loyalty.

Thanks to organizations such as the Food and Drug Administration, we can be assured that the widespread implementation of nootropics would be both efficacious and beneficial. The widespread implementation of the utilization of these drugs by healthy and unhealthy individuals will result in a general increase of the cognition of the general public. This general increase in the cognition of the population will result in the ability of these individuals to achieve things which could not have been conceived prior to the implementation of these medical advances (Buchanan, 2011, p. 130). The following excerpt from Science and Engineering Ethics, a scientific journal which explores the ethics of multiple scientific fields of study, describes the effects of cognitive enhancement drugs on healthy individuals, “Stimulants enhance memory by increasing neuronal activation or by releasing neuromodulators, facilitating the synaptic changes that underlie learning” (Bostrom & Sandberg, 2002, p. 316). The net effects of these drugs help users concentrate and remain focused for longer periods of time. This increase in ability to concentrate directly results in its users being better able to comprehend, remember, and learn new information. These effects could result in a number of advancements being made by

This revolutionizing pill is called Whizzerall, a drug enhancer that substantially boosts intelligence beyond imaginable. It allows anyone who takes the pill to score a near perfect--if not perfect--score on any standardized tests or exams, and Whizzerall gives students the creativity, knowledge, and sophistication to write well-written papers. The science behind this revolutionizing pill is a one to five ratio--a dose of adrenaline and five surges of modafinil can decrease brain aneurysm and boost

There are many illnesses, pertaining to both medical and psychological, that affect the health and wellbeing of countless other people. Some examples of these types of diseases would be Parkinson’s disease and obsessive-compulsive disorder. While the effects of the disease can be suppressed by pharmaceutical means, there comes a point when medicine is simply not enough. This in turn led to the usage of deep brain stimulators to help ameliorate problems that medicine could not. Although implementing deep brain stimulators is a new procedure that has been in practice since over twenty years ago, many experts agree that using them is not a panacea because there can be many problems from them. Since deep brain stimulators are recently new in the medical field, there are positive and negative effects still being discovered.

The trick is for scientists to get these results without the harmful effects. Researchers recently found out the brain makes a chemical, anandamide,

The work of my previous Ph.D student of Bechara Saab was published in the top neuroscience journal Neuron (Cell Press) and had a ground-breaking impact on the field. This paper was selected for a press release, picked up by television stations and newspapers across the country. “Exercising your curiosity could make you smarter, researchers say”, September 16 2009, from the National Post said “Scientists at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital say exercising your curiosity may make you smarter. In a paper published in the journal Neuron, Dr. John Roder and Bechara Saab described a study of the interaction of two proteins in a small region of the brain-- the dentate gyrus -- which plays a role in long-term memory and spatial navigation. The scientists took a certain protein, which is linked to autism, and increased it by 50% in the dentate gyrus of mice. This increased the ability of brain cells to change how they communicate with each other and gave the mice superior memory in complex tasks and a significant increase in curiosity. Dr. Saab said it is the first time scientists have found a molecular link between intelligence and curiosity.” Faculty of 1000, who monitors the best papers in Biology, gave his paper their top score

In recent years brain training games have become a topic of interest among both researchers and common people alike. Researchers are interested in the healing properties of brain training while normal people are looking to brain training as a way to improve their performance and get a leg up on the competition in school, work, and life. Up until recently, it was believed that the brain was unchangeable in terms of memory capacity. Researchers were well aware of the fact that the brain can change and form new connections when brain damage occurs. However, the idea that humans can train their brains to be more efficient and stronger seemed like a far-fetched cry from reality up until the late 1990’s (Weicker, Villringer & Thöne-Otto, 2016). As time went on and more research was conducted in the field of brain training, it became clear that brain training is not an exact science but, it does have real cognitive benefits.

There is a widely held belief that commercially available computerized brain-training programs improve cognitive function. 2 Although society has accepted this correlation of “brain games” and increased cognitive ability, it has yet to be proven.1 Regardless of this, there has been a recent spawn of enterprises dedicated to creating these games. Of these enterprises, the most well-known companies are Lumosity and Brain Age.1 These companies even argue that brain training is as good as physical training.4 Websites like