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'Smart Drug' Modafinil Actually Works, Study Shows
by Laura Geggel, Staff Writer | August 19, 2015 07:05pm ET
The "smart drug" modafinil actually does work for some people, improving their performance on long and complex tasks, also enhancing decision-making and planning skills, a new review of studies finds.
Modafinil, also known by its brand name Provigil, is approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat people with sleep disorders such as narcolepsy. But the majority of the drug's users such as students who take it to study for exams use it off-label, believing it may help them focus. This is despite the lack of strong evidence to date showing that the drug actually works this way.
"This is the first overview of modafinil's actions in non-sleep-deprived individuals since 2008, and so we were able to include a lot of recent data," Ruairidh McLennan Battleday, a co-author of the new review and a lecturer at the University of Oxford in England, said in a statement. The recent studies of the drug have used more-complex tests of cognition than those employed previously, and found that modafinil indeed enhances thinking, he said.
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'Smart Drug' Modafinil Actually Works, Study Shows