The underground world of neuroenhancing drugs (2009)

I understand that this article is focused on a different type of drug, but still I would have appreciated some mention of nerve growth factor. I find it interesting that Rita Levi-Montalcini worked until she was 102 years old, and I've read reports of NGF maintaining brain size in old people, so there is some evidence of it being "neuroenhancing" in some sense. It should get a mention in an article like this.

I feel like I've read this before, but I must not have known who Paul Phillips was the first time around. Interesting to be reading about the poker player and not the compiler author

i'm curious what the current state of nootropics is compared to 2009. who has some insights on their throwaway?

The article seams very sensationalized.

> Working memory has been likened to a mental scratch pad: you use it to keep relevant data in mind while you’re completing a task. (Imagine a cross-examination, in which a lawyer has to keep track of the answers a witness has given, and formulate new questions based on them.)

Isn't it weird that we have to use auxiliary,learned tools as an analogy to how an innate tool works, and not the other way around? It's not like we don't have a lot of experience with thinking and forgetting, ourselves.