Can Pills Make You Smart?

Get-Smart Pills

By Tim Jarvis
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the August 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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A recent survey found that one in five readers of the journal Nature had taken a pill to focus, stay calm, or improve memory. O, The Oprah Magazine reports.

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