Although improvements were observed in every cognitive task that was practiced, there was no evidence that brain training made people smarter.

we can clearly enhance learning, even if mental gymnastics won’t make us smarter.

Adderall enhanced performance on one of the tests, the embedded image test, which requires subjects to reassemble a whole image from a scrambled one.Still, these are subtle effects, and there is no evidence that any prescription drug or supplement or smart drink is going to raise your I.Q.

In the end, you can’t yet exceed your innate intelligence

hypnosis can, in certain circumstances, result in the distortion of memory.

Initially, the neighbour told police she saw Trochym on the afternoon of Thursday, Oct. 15, 1992,but after she underwent hypnosis at the request of police, she remembered she sawthe accusedleave on Wednesday afternoon.

In its ruling, the court said the dangers posed by problems with the evidence could deprive an accused of a fair trial.

But dissenting judges, in their reasons, expressed concern about the majority ruling in which hypnosis is described as a "novel science" and "hypnotically refreshed memories" are now consideredinadmissible as evidence. "This ignores the fact that the technique has been used in Canada for almost 30 years, and has been employed in Canadian criminal investigations to assist in memory retrieval of both Crown and defence witnesses for a similar amount of time," they wrote. "Hypnosis is not new science, nor is its use in forensic investigation new."