[ExI] Blue improved memory?

[Anders Sandberg]

Interesting use of a classic drug/stain: memory enhancer.

http://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2016152893

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160628072028.htm

By no means a radical improvement, but it is an old rather safe drug 
with an amusing side effect (blue pee).

> Methylene blue is a memory-enhancing drug in animals and humans after 
> a single dose in the low-dose range of 0.5–4 mg/kg, but it has 
> opposite effects at doses greater than 10 mg/kg and displays a 
> hormetic dose response (15 
> <http://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2016152893#>).

Still, not a good idea to combine with SSRIs, 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2078225/

-- 
Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University

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