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Comment author: Clarity 24 August 2015 11:47:38AM *  0 points [-]

Valproate is the most underated cognitive enhancer. Though it's probably bad for your sperm. It's like borrowing your future children's intelligence.

Comment author: Dorikka 24 August 2015 12:57:54PM *  1 point [-]

Personal experience that it is useful or just from the indirectly linked papers?

Also, note that it may potentiallly insta-fuck your liver.

Comment author: Artaxerxes 24 August 2015 12:15:16PM 1 point [-]

From this description alone, it sounds like a good idea if you don't plan on having kids.

Comment author: Clarity 27 August 2015 12:12:25AM *  -1 points [-]

Hahaha. You're quite right. Can you help me explain that to my wife?

Comment author: [deleted] 26 August 2015 04:55:34AM 0 points [-]

I've heard people say that it makes them sluggish and dumb - is this first hand experience you're talking about?

Comment author: Clarity 26 August 2015 10:54:08AM 0 points [-]

Although I do have first hand experience, that was to remedy specific other issues so I wasn't generalising about that.

My recommendation comes from the little positive cognitive enhancing effects I've read about, and a lack of any reports to the contrary.