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POPSBrain drug abuse on the radar 
They restrict the damage that is caused by this kind of drug, in a similar way to the way they have restricted the damage caused by addictive drugs in the present, and the past. One dangerous side effect of 'stay alert' or 'thought accelerators' is that often they can be taken at the expense of the minimum required amount of sleep (which can vary from person to person.) Sleep is necessary for our brains to operate properly, and they've yet been able to find any cases where it can be compromised to any great extent. Sleep deprivation can lead to delusion and psychosis, poor concentration, and performance, and both short and long term memory loss. A bad combination. Where too many 'flashes of brilliance' are really just flashes. By the way. Who is going to test these drugs. Perhaps we'll have some smart monkeys that will unify Einstein's 'Grand Universal Theory' for us. I'm sure they'd find it much easier to be objective. (Douglas Adams told us what happens when you have smart mice
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POPSRoyal jelly triggers queen genes I'm sure any beekeeper can tell you that a queen bee is just a worker that has been fed royal jelly, They wanted to study the process in more detail, because the principle is thought to work in other animals, including humans, and they were also trying to work out how to make 'clean' queens in an attempt to help repair the damage to the honey industry with what has become affected by something known as Colony Collapse disorder. They achieved the same results as royal jelly when they switched of a gene Dnmt3, which showed demetylization of DNA led to the development of certain traits. Studies continue, but in humans things like obesity,infertility, longevity, and brain disorders, are thought to be affected by the chemical effects on genes
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POPSBrain Implants to Restore Vision Harvard researchers chose to focus on part of the visual system called the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), a relay station along the route from the optic nerve to the visual cortex, where visual information is processed. And unlike locations in the visual cortex, the LGN is one of the first "stops" in the visual system, meaning that the neural signals encoding visual information have not yet been extensively processed and spread throughout the brain.
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