[John Atkinson[_2_]]

On Sep 12, 2:46 pm, George M. Middius
wrote:
Thanks to recent strides in understanding how the brain works, it's only a
matter of time before medications specifically designed to improve mental
ability, or cognition, hit the market.

"The hallmark of these drugs is they don't create more memory," says John
Tallman, CEO of Helicon Therapeutics of Farmingdale, N.Y., which plans to
begin testing its most promising brain drug in humans later this year.
"What these drugs really do is enhance the conversion process of
short-term to long-term memories."

Yet "Flowers for Algernon" is on the list of books
conservatives try to have banned. What's with that?

John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile