Drug Being Used To Improve Cognition Affects Dopamine, Suggesting Potential For Abuse

Saturday, May 4, 2013 - 15:00 in Psychology & Sociology

Preliminary research in healthy men suggests that the narcolepsy drug modafinil, increasingly being used to enhance cognitive abilities, affects the activity of dopamine in the brain in a way that may create the potential for abuse and dependence, according to a study in the March 18 issue of JAMA. read more

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