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Washington: It is already known that nicotine enhances our ability to think, perform and take tests. Now, according to scientists, it increases our memory function, too.
Up to now, results about nicotine's effects on boosting human performance were mixed.
According to Dr Stephen Heishman, a scientist with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (part of the National Institutes of Health), in the past, researchers kept doing studies on the effects of nicotine and human performance without taking into account the drug''s harsh withdrawal effects.