A team of scientists recently revealed in an opinion piece published online Sunday by the journal Nature that healthy people should be granted the right to take brain stimulants such as the ones given to the elderly who are memory-impaired.

Moreover, they argued that college students were already illegally taking prescription brain pills like Ritalin in order to boost their studying skills, adding that brain drugs were in high demand in many areas.

The experts also compared brain stimulants’ effects to the ones entailed by a healthy diet or a proper sleeping schedule, stating the pills could benefit healthy people as well, by improving brain function.

Although further research needs to be conducted and risk management measures to be taken, many middle-aged people who want to prevent their brain from aging, along with those who have to perform multiple tasks at the work place, are beginning to request such drugs as the latter add more effective ones to their kind.

Brain scientist Martha Farah of the University of Pennsylvania, who was one of the authors to the piece in Nature, said that in future, more and more people would start demanding brain drugs to improve their memory and other skills.

Furthermore, another author, Michael Gazzaniga of the University of California, Santa Barbara stated via e-mail that he would definitely appeal to effective brain pills to replace caffeine.

The commentaries in the journal were authored by seven scientists, alongside ethics experts and the editor-in-chief of Nature himself, who also presented their opinions during a seminar funded by Nature and Rockefeller University in New York.

The brain drugs that could benefit healthy people include Adderall and Ritalin, which are both usually prescribed to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder sufferers, Provigil, used to treat sleep disorders, as well as some meds for Alzheimer’s disease.