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Anxiety

May 5, 2008

Brain boosters drug of choice for anxious intellectual

IT WAS initially meant to be a bit of a joke when, earlier this year, the respected international academic journal Nature posted a they'd ever experimented with brain-boosting drugs.

The journal's editors got a surprise then to learn that about 20% of those responding used so-called cognition-enhancing drugs such as beta-blockers . . . The journal's editors got a surprise then to learn that about 20% of those responding used so-called cognition-enhancing drugs such as beta-blockers,

That pretty much says it all, don't you think? We are so competitive we will pop this pill to think better.

I take something because it controls my anxiety which is life ripping, and they take it just to be able to give the big speech? I think I'm insulted.

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