With over 40 years of research to support their findings, a team of British scientists was slightly surprised to learn that people with higher IQs are much more prone to drug use. "It's ...

I’m sitting at my home office in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, my winter residence. I’m typing out another article, being fascinated by the fact that just a few months ago nobody really spoke about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nootropics are touted as “smart drugs” meant to improve cognitive performance. But there’s a lot we still don’t know about them.

Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa has this theory, which he calls the Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis. Here's how it goes: intelligence evolved as a way to deal with "evolutionary novelties ...

We use coffee to stay awake, good food and nutrition to stay healthy and alert. But if there was a drug that made you smarter, helped you learn, and made you more focused, would you take it? That's a ...

Smart multi-target drugs are reshaping modern therapeutics by addressing the complex, interconnected pathways that drive diseases like Alzheimer’s, cancer, and major depressive disorder. Advances in ...

The growing personal use of nootropics — drugs, supplements or other substances that enhance cognitive function — has given rise to safety concerns. On Tuesday, physicians at the Annual Meeting of the ...

Let's face it, who doesn't want to be sharper, more alert, and able to ace anything you want to do without having to get much sleep? Now, in addition to Ritalin and Adderall, there's a new crop of ...

Blame it on boredom, peer abuse, curiosity, or anything else, but it appears that smarter children tend to get into illegal drugs later in life. An analysis of data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, ...

The FDA states new diabetes drugs now need to show a lack of cardiovascular toxicity. Despite initial reservations, companies are cooperating, and some are even seeking the holy grail of ...