• AdelleChattre
    +7

    It's a wakefulness agent, with potential side effects. Of the popular nootropics, modafinil and adrafinil are long on hype and short on evidence. Recent results on modafinil show the opposite conclusion. One thing modafinil is not is a heretofore undiscovered nootropic drug.

    • septimine
      +2

      I heard about that drug a lot on reddit. Apparently it's used a lot by professional programmers as part of their stacks. I knew they talk about it as a cognitive enhancer, I just never knew the "label" use.

      That whole scene sounds like a bunch of Olympians from the ussr-- using drugs for any minor advantage. I don't want to know what will happen to these idiots in 20 years.