September 22, 2008

Kids to test smart drugs

School children could be used a guinea pigs for new brain enhancing drug, these drugs are known as Cognition Enhancers and are believed to improve the performance of the brain, like short term memory and increase the speed of the thought too.

The government have already been advised by the Academy of Medical Sciences, they recommended that these drugs could be introduced, but there is a need for strict regulation.

In move that it bound to create some problems, FutureLab have recommended that schools with pupils who come from poorer backgrounds or those who are falling behind the rest of the school, will need to be subsidised out of the school funds to enable them to keep the standards up.

Source [Telegraph]