A smart drug for smart people, if you believe the hype.

It's a smart drug more from a marketing standpoint than from a clinical efficacy standpoint, Mayo's Hensrud said.

In the new Hollywood thriller, 'Limitless', Bradley Cooper plays a failing writer who uses a top-secret ' smart drug' to unlock his brain's potential.

Yet are these smart drugs all they are cracked up to be?

Smart Drugs Thankfully, the smart drugs hype has started to recede.

The media is full of stories about the amazing properties of smart drugs.

But the side-effects of taking smart drugs can be nasty.

Many people like to use smart drugs, which are supposed to boost memory and concentration.

Such " smart drugs" range from caffeine stimulants to prescription drugs for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

It's the use of smart drugs and skunk cannabis by kids that is the massive problem now.

But whatever the risks, the likelihood is that the demand for smart drugs will continue to grow.

And Sahakian points to the increasing lifestyle use of cognitive enhancing drugs, or smart drugs, by healthy people.

By attaching powerful poisons onto the cancer-seeking antibodies, scientists can make smart drugs that hit diseased cells hard.

Smart drugs are capitalism's little helpers.

Smart drug enthusiasts also think DHEA works to protect brain cells from the degenerative changes of old age.

The use of so-called ' smart drugs', bought on the internet, to boost mental performance is rife in British universities.