Strengthening Memories

Benedict Carey describes in his article in The New York Times that neurologists have recently started focusing harder to develop a drug which can enhance memory return and strengthen that memory in one's mind. The researchers have only been testing on rats which show promising results, but the act of testing on humans still display an unknown factor. Unlike the short term effects of memory recovery with caffeine or nicotine, these neurologists are trying to create a long or longer term drug with less addiction factors.

Such a substance would have obvious appeal — for people at risk of dementia, to name just one group — but the search has been very slow going.

The thought of having a helping aid as a learning tool will inevitably change the educational world for students entirely. Much stress can be relieved by taking this drug to stimulate and enhance the learning and memorization stage. This possibly revolutionary product will create a community with better and more efficient learners and in effect, workers. The only worry is still the possible side-effects. The best possible scenario would be that there are none, but human nature has shown that addiction is a hard quality to overcome.