Healthy students taking Alzheimer's drug?

[ethyl]

So I thought of about this after reading the stimulant supplement thread:

I know a doctor of internal medicine and she took a particular Alzheimer's drug for a short time. She doesn't have Alzheimer's but she had an incredible improvement in memory.. she was remembering remarkable details, individual numbers on patient records and everything. I can't remember the damn drug's name... I'm not sure if it was a cholinesterase inhibitor because I don't know what else is out there to treat Alzheimer's. She stopped after a few months but she didn't have any side effects. Has anyone else heard of healthy people (undergrad or med/pharm students!) taking memory enhancing drugs? If one were willing to risk your health, this type of thing would be invaluable for exams!

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[ethyl]

edit: I think she took Aricept... but I could be wrong.

 

[pharmaz88]

Galantamine, the active in Reminyl/Razadyne, is also available without a subscription as a 'supplement'.

 

[pinkyrx]

I've also heard of people doing this, but I have no idea which drug they were using.

 

[dstormz]

let me know when you guys find out. something is wrong with my memory. Right after taking the finals, I tend to forget mostly everything.

Does this happen to anyone else?

 

[Requiem]

let me know when you guys find out. something is wrong with my memory. Right after taking the finals, I tend to forget mostly everything.

Does this happen to anyone else?

To be honest, I find I retain what I deem important to a very high degree. For example our pharmaceutics prof kept stressing DLVO theory + Nernst potential of particles in flocculated / de-flocculated systems. (Basically forms of a suspension.)

I can recall almost every detail of them, and the more important things in anatomy (hormones, etc) yet I forget a bit of the minor details.

You should try to promote retention, you need to retain everything from pharmacy school on your rotations, so do your best.

 

[ForgetMeNot]

Yeah...pharmaceutics questions appeared every day on all of my rotations.

My 'ceutics professor would be so sad to know that I've forgotten most of the things from that class.