searching for the limitless drug: a stimulating experiment
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CuriousExperiment #1
Searching For The Limitless Drug: A Stimulating Experiment
Logan Harper Zade Holloway
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Vision - There are many things to learn, but who has the time?
Goal: Search for a more efficient method of learning
How to reach our goal? Enhance the physical & mental abilities
Test time: 6 weeks
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ImplementationtDCS - Brain stimulation via electrodes
- Why tDCS? Testing to see if running a small electrical current through the cortex of the brain enhance cognitive properties?
Nootropics - Cognitive enhancing drugs
- Why nootropics? Testing to see if drugs actually have cognitive enhancing properties.
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Testing
IQ Tests: Cambridge Brain Sciences
- Testing 4 categories (memory, reasoning, concentration,
planning)
- Will take 2 tests from each testing category once a week (preferred on Saturdays), for four consecutive weeks
- Weeks 1 & 6 are for taking the complete IQ challenge test and recording the score
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IQ Challenge Spreadsheet
Participants will record each score in the field provide
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Testing
Happiness survey: Track Your Happiness.org
- Participants will receive 2 text notifications each day to measure their happiness (5o samples for a full measure)
- Our hypothesis is that enhancing learning & memory, will increase general happiness.
Happiness
Sample happiness weekday report
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Why tDCS?Transcranial direct-current stimulation has proven to be an effective method for alleviating depression, enhancing coordination, mathematical skills, language-learning ability, and much more.
Can it be implemented outside of a lab setting to enhance the average person’s learning ability?
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Why nootropics?
Nootropics are constantly being revealed to be a newfound “limitless drug”. In Russia, they are currently used to slow down the path of Alzheimer’s.
Ranging from blocking receptors that make you tired, to increasing cerebral blood flow, nootropics seem to be a great choice for finding safer methods for cognitive enhancement.
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Future DirectionsIf CuriousHumans obtains significant learning and mental adaptation improvement, many more studies of brain enhancement will be sure to come.
We want to help build future pathways for the human species to grow, no matter how small. Remain curious with us, and reality will unfold in a wonderful direction!