Do a majority taking neutrotransmitters feel there has been some improvement in mental condition? I suspect most people do not. If it is not unhealthy to take one neurotransmitter, how many in combination become unhealthy? I would expect the benefits of these drugs to become more apparent when they were in combination with each other but any potential negative effects could also be magnified in combination.<p>You could fund research into what cognitive enhancement drugs did in healthy populations. Undergraduates would line up to be paid to take these drugs.<p>There's also the underlying ethical question of dosing people with combinations of neurotransmitters. We haven't studied it yet so we don't know what the side effects are. Is animal research appropriate? Do any of these drugs work on other primates? Has anyone ever tried to teach monkeys mathematics? <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/13134612/Naturrecom456702a" rel="nofollow">http://www.scribd.com/doc/13134612/Naturrecom456702a</a> argues for more study into the area, though they use as examples drugs of much more proven ability for cognitive enhancement than piracetam.
I haven't personally tried piracetam, but erowid has a good section on piracetam and other nootropics. It generally seemed from Erowid that nobody had any bad experiences unless they were also on hard drugs.<p>Piracetem:<a href="http://www.erowid.org/smarts/piracetam" rel="nofollow">http://www.erowid.org/smarts/piracetam</a><p>Nootropic Vault:<a href="http://www.erowid.org/smarts/smarts.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.erowid.org/smarts/smarts.shtml</a>
Didn't seem to work particularly well for me.<p>Do read this, though:
<a href="http://yarchive.net/med/nootropics.html" rel="nofollow">http://yarchive.net/med/nootropics.html</a>