Can't remember phone numbers? Worried about an uncoming exam or desperately want to give up smoking? In future, the answer will be simple: just pop a pill. The idea that an array of easily available, addiction-free drugs could be used to improve memory or increase intelligence is the stuff of science fiction dystopia-in "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley created a whle planet under the spell of a pleasure drug called Soma.
But a new report by leading scientists in the fields of psychology and neuroscience argues that,very soon, there really will be a pill for every ill