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Re: Can a medicine make you smarter?

Posted by wcfrench on October 2, 2003, at 14:30:33

In reply to Re: Can a medicine make you smarter?, posted by rianny on October 2, 2003, at 2:37:26

In college I began putting forth effort (much different from high school) and I did exceptionally well. After I got depressed, things fell and it was hard to stay in the A range, sometimes a B was hard. When I took antipsychotics, I had visual thought stimulation and did Calculus extremely fast and was able to map out problems without using paper. I never experienced it to that degree before, nor did I experience so much visual thought and memory. I definitely did better than I had done even before I was depressed, so it leads me to believe strong medicines can do that. I think it is also possible that we still get smarter when we're depressed, though we don't feel it. Maybe once we feel much better, we actually realize how much we've learned and can apply it efficiently. But, as I've heard with Ritalin or Adderal, I've felt almost like I could do anything so easily.. art, writing, music, and I really could, but perhaps my abilities were just handicapped before, in a sense. They say that people that are bipolar often have exceptional capabilities, probably more so, I feel, when the resources are able to be tapped into. I know psychedelic drugs and LSD can cause your senses to be heightened, such as hearing more depth in music, etc. So parts of our brain become amplified in a sense.. or they create additional brain cells if the area is healing? It's so hard to say if drugs just bring out things already inside of us, or if they actually spark things in our head that have never been available before. I think it all boils down to using your brain and your body as efficiently as possible, since it has already been proven that antidepressants can help regrow brain cells. But isn't being smarter than before actually making you smarter? It seems like I answered my own question, but I don't really feel like it's the right answer. Regrowing or stimulating new hippocampal growth seems like it would be on the borderline of being called "making you smarter."

There are a number of articles on this, now that I've looked, and they all seem to point toward Alzheimer medicine to help boost memory. Nootropic drugs can improve communication between the hemispheres of the brain, boost brain-oxygen levels, and release chemicals that are found in chocolate, and you're in love. Some medicines can improve a person's skill for empathy and 'introspective self-knowledge.'

This might sound crazy, but it seems to me that everything we are finding (medicine that can bring forth superior attributes in a person and put them to their complete and ultimate potential).. all of this is found here on Earth. Recently I've been seeing more and more stories on scientists being able to harness the attributes that animals have to use it to better our own species. (such as spider silk, spider leg hair, bat venom) It seems like everything we would ever need to become a perfect world is right here on Earth, if we can find it and figure out how to use it. It would take a long time, of course, to find everything and to put it together and tweak it so that everyone could become their fully conscious and enlightened state. Some wouldn't agree with a utopian concept, except those of us that have been there, where life's answers are simple and realize that no one should ever (or want to) do wrong to another person, know that if everyone in the world felt that way, the world _would_ be perfect. We were put on this planet, in whatever way you believe, and everything we could ever need is probably on it too.


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