Students and workers in industries from tech to finance take the medications in the hope they will improve concentration and ability to get things done. But a new paper suggests that this may be ill-advised
six months Americans have been struggling to get their hands on medications like dextroamphetamine and methylphenidate . Officially, these stimulant drugs—alongside another, Modafinil —are used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder .
in the hope they will improve concentration and ability to get things done. But a new paper suggests that this may be ill-advised. The drugs seem to make people slightly worse at solving problems, not better., a group of researchers led by Peter Bossaerts, an economist at the University of Cambridge, tested how Adderall, Provigil and Ritalin affected 40 healthy people’s ability to perform optimisation problems.
Perhaps more striking was how drugs changed the way people attacked the task. After taking Adderall or Ritalin the participants spent far longer working on their knapsacks than they did when they had taken the placebo pill. . When given Ritalin in particular, subjects were around 50% slower at completing trials. That was roughly equivalent to the delay expected from going from the easiest to the most difficult trial in the placebo session.
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