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by awesomeMilou 1097 days ago
Then the authors should have lead with the purpose in their abstract and also highlight this fact in their discussion. They choose not to. Instead, their paper is titled "Not so smart?“Smart”drugs increase the level butdecrease the qualityof cognitive effort", with the abstract leading with "The efficacy of pharmaceutical cognitive enhancers in everyday complex tasks remains to be established."

Sorry, but that's just attention grabbing nonsense. Should have said "for people undiagnosed with cognitive impairments".