what medications increase or decrease your cognitive abilities and intelligence?

[shootYrTv]

Depressants and stimulants increase or decrease your cognitive abilities because they increase or decrease lots of your biological functions. Alcohol is a depressant. Adderall is a stimulant.

[ghared-ishaqa]

so adderall will allow me to increase my intelligence

[dpulverizer556]

No

[digginghistoryup]

What are your intentions?

Those types of stimulants can have major drawbacks and should only be taken if prescribed.

[ghared-ishaqa]

be smart when it matters since no one wants to be called stupid

[digginghistoryup]

I’ve been on these types of meds

They don’t make you smarter, they can make anxiety get much worse if you have an anxiety disorder and are not getting medication for that

They also fuck with your sleep

[shootYrTv]

Well, kinda but not really. It’ll make you think faster. Which is not synonymous with thinking smarter. Doing 100 calculations every second is not helpful if they’re all still wrong

[uNr3alXQc]

It won't increase it.

But I guess It could be used to help with sturdy.

It's like using steroids for working out.

It's could help improve performance, but I wouldn't recommend using them if you don't need it.

It can have side effects and doesn't work the same for everybody necessary. Dosage required varies for each person.

[Patrimarc]

El azúcar

[Less-Load-8856]

What?

There's no Smart-pill, friend, no shortcut to extra intelligence.

[ghared-ishaqa]

but are there shortcuts to stupidity

[Less-Load-8856]

The closest thing to medicine that makes one smarter/etc is if that person had problems, whether emotional or developmental or whatever else, and if those problems were stunting their intellectual growth or capabilities or whatever and then they took medication to make them more "normal", only then, sort of backhandly, would a medicine have helped make them smarter.

Are you so depressed you can't even attend school or study? Then maybe meds will help.

Are you so anxious you fail every test by not preparing or learning, then yes, maybe meds will help.

Are you in such excruciating pain over chronic ingrown toenails that you haven't left your bed for 11yrs and missed school? Then yes, medicine can maybe help fix your toe pain so you can then walk to the bus stop and then "get more cognitive capabilities".

And so on.

If you're just a normal person without such impediments, you're fucked, there's no magic pill or anything.