Word: mcgaugh
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...they get older." Smart stuff is also the drug of choice at "raves" -- '60s-style happenings now popular on the West Coast. But despite the mounting enthusiasm, many scientists say the only thing smart about these substances is the way they've been marketed. "Smart drugs," asserts Dr. James McGaugh, director of the center for the neurobiology of learning and memory at the University of California at Irvine, "are a Hula-Hoop for the mind...
Despite such techno talk, none of these drugs has been proved effective in properly designed, double-blind trials. "I think they are silly," says the University of California's McGaugh, who dismisses the elaborate explanations of how the drugs work as "scientific mumbo jumbo." If such substances were indeed effective -- and safe -- he points out, drug companies, which stand to gain hundreds of millions of dollars from their sale, would have marketed them years...