The Modafinil market presents opportunities in expanding applications, regional supply-demand dynamics, and evolving end-use sectors. Key market drivers and challenges, along with price variations and ...

The "smart drug" modafinil actually does work for some people, improving their performance on long and complex tasks, also enhancing decision-making and planning skills, a new review of studies finds.

Modafinil use creates a debate on how far to push the limits of the human body. July 24, 2007 — -- In 2003, David Plotz, a busy writer and father of a toddler, was feeling sleep-deprived and ...

Modafinil (2-[(Diphenylmethyl) sulfinyl] acetamide; brand name Provigil in the United States) is a novel wake-promoting agent first marketed in France in the early 1990s, as a treatment for the ...

In up-all-night, work-work-work America, a prescription medication like modafinil was sure to make major inroads from the get-go. And, whether you call this novel stay-awake drug by its commercial ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --Everyone's looking for an edge -- that's what humans do. For business consultant Peter Borden, that "edge" comes in the form of a pill -- called modafinil. "The effects in the ...

A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee decides not to recommend approval of a new drug for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The committee was considering modafinil, a ...

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Whether you’re a busy professional, a student facing intense academic pressure, or someone who simply wants to improve your cognition and productivity while promoting alertness, the search for ...

Extension of our 'natural' capacities through science and technology is not a new phenomenon – it has been a key driver of many evolutions of human society throughout history: movement with the wheel; ...