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http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Boosters-Foods-Drugs-Smarter/dp/0914171658/From BooklistThis book has some good points: it calls alcohol a “Make-You-Stupid” drug and gives Gerovital low marks. But mostly it promotes the rapidly growing fad fueled by the likes of a product line called Designer Mind Foods and individual products such as “Go For It,” “Memory Fuel,” and Earth Girl’s “Psuper Psonic Psybertonic.” The idea behind it is to get people to patronize smart bars and to down such conglomerations, which are said to improve memory, fight off diseases, and, best of all, give the energy to dance ’til dawn. Potter and Orfali point to many benefits from such programs, including less institutionalization and higher profits for drug companies; the latter point is certainly inarguable. A veggie cocktail provided “for preventing Alzheimer’s” should sell like hot cakes, as, provided the publicity hits the target, might the whole book. An appendix gives the addresses and phone numbers of physicians who engage in “life extension,” one-fifth of whom are in California. William BeattyReviewIn many cities, and at rave parties, you’ll find “smart bars” serving brain cocktails. “Smart drugs” and foods which enhance learning, thinking and memory by heightening the chemical processes of the brain and body have become very popular. If you’re looking for some solid information on what it’s all about, Brain Boosters is a good place to start. Along with the details of various pharmaceuticals such as nootrophics (learning and memory enhancers), vitamin brain boosters and herbal supplements, there is an overview of how the brain functions and how factors such as environments, diet and aging can adversely affect your ability to think. Also discussed is the smart drug industry itself and the FDA’s war on vitamin supplements, along with how to locate a doctor who will administer smart drugs requiring a prescription. So, do they work? A great number of people say they do, and with far fewer side effects than caffeine, this country’s current drug of choice. — From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by Ilene RosoffProduct Details    Paperback: 257 pages    Publisher: Ronin Publishing (July 28, 1993)    Language: English    ISBN-10: 0914171658    ISBN-13: 978-0914171652Please contribute back by OCRing *and* Spellchecking/Proofreading (!) this book. I recommend ABBYY Finereader 10 for doing this work in a relatively easy way. There are other applications as well. The important thing is to spellcheck and correct any mistakes the automatic software run did – often people just run automatic conversion and upload here a pdf that has many mistakes and/or can’t be converted to other digital formats.  If you start to do the process please leave a comment here so the effort won’t be duplicated by others. Thank you.