Think prescription stimulants like Adderall improve focus? They don’t
Think prescription stimulants like Adderall improve focus? They don’t
- August 23, 2019
- Sara Mednick, cog sci, Healthline, Aug. 23, 2019
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Researchers tested and measured what short- and long-term effects these prescription
medications had on adults. They recruited 43 people, ages 18 to 35, for a study at
UC Irvine’s Sleep and Cognition Lab. … Sara Mednick, PhD, the study’s co-author and
UCI associate professor of cognitive sciences and director of the campus’s sleep lab
[said] “If you talk to anyone in college who is taking these stimulants, the hope
is they’re using them to be able to study and party longer,” Mednick said. “It may
make you feel like Superman, but it’s actually not making you smarter.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.healthline.com/health-news/study-drug-dangers.
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