2. Read the excerpt from an article in the New Yorker (April 29, 2009). Use the

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2. Read the excerpt from an article in the New Yorker (April 29, 2009). Use the tools of game theory to analyze this situation. Why are people behaving this way? What do you expect to happen in the future? Brain Gain: The Underground World of "Neuroenhancing" Drugs, by Margaret Talbot In 2005, a team led by Sean Esteban McCabe, a professor at the University of Michigan's Substance Abuse Research Center, reported that in the previous year 4.1 per cent of American undergraduates had taken prescription stimulants for off-label use; at one school, the figure was twenty-five per cent. Other researchers have found even higher rates: a 2002 study at a small college found that more than thirty- five per cent of the students had used prescription stimulants nonmedically in the previous year Drugs such as Adderall can cause nervousness, headaches, sleeplessness, and decreased appetite among other side effects. An F.D.A. warning on Adderall's label notes that "amphetamines have a high

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A Game is a situation where more than one member is involved. Each member strives to maximize the utility. In all the games, all the members will have some partially opposing interests that make the member be proactive and strategic. The above thing can be analyzed based on this game theory:

Game: The circumstances that resulted from the action of two or more students. The group of students talk together about the drug and nicknamed as 'moda'.

Players: The students are the players here.

Strategy: The students are taking the drugs without the prescription and believe that improve their cognitive abilities.

Pay-off: The students seek increased cognitive abilities. They pay for it more than they willing to give.

Information set: The information that the students sharing with them and focus towards it.

Equilibrium: The point where the students have made the decisions and outcome have to be reached.

The students believe that 'Neuroenhancer Drugs' make them do better, and make awakening. The moda denotes the 'modanofil' and is approved by FDA to treat narcolepsy. The students are getting off-label and without prescription. They do so to improve cognitive abilities. FDA approved amphetamines are Adderall and Ritalin used to treat an attention deficit hypersensitive disorder(ADHD). Now, the Modanofil is compared with these two drugs and used by healthy people. They are called as ' smart Drugs' in the society.

In future: The Neuroenhancement interact with the brain in a day-day life. Undoubtedly the next generation considers it as 'smart pills'. It has huge potential to alter the inner comprehension and action of humans. It makes one's to be more productive and innovative but at the same time, accompany of positive potential is serious harm to the people. So, the proper Assessment, judgment, and regulation to be developed before it reaches the consumers.

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