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Re:Cognitive enhancement drug may also cause addiction by swombat on Thursday March 19, 2009 @04:44PM (#523971)
How is this news? Even modafinil.com and Wikipedia already list Dopamine effects from modafinil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil

http://modafinil.com

Worth noting, too, that "may cause addiction" does not equal "causes addiction".

Re:Cognitive enhancement drug may also cause addiction by robg on Thursday March 19, 2009 @06:26PM (#524095)
Nice catch. It's the first imaging study to show the effect, I guess. I think this is one of the reasons for its popularity. It not only makes some folks alert. It makes them happy and alert. That's the holy combination. Caffeine doesn't quite get there and how big is that market? When we look back in fifty years at the development of custom (and cosmetic) psychotropics, I bet modafinil leads the story.