7 best nootropic drugs

Cavinton (Vinpocetine) is a cerebral blood circulation corrector, which has a powerful nootropic effect. In fact, Cavinton is a drug for improving cerebral circulation, but the nootropic effect it possesses makes it possible to write this drug into the "mind-improving" group. It is obtained from the medicinal periwinkle - a flowering plant.

The scope of the drug is wide: these are strokes and encephalopathy, vertebral artery syndrome, vascular vision and hearing impairment, tinnitus, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, Meniere's disease. Cavinton is able to help brain tissue to tolerate hypoxia with minimal consequences. It protects nerve cells from free radical oxidation, interferes with capillary platelet aggregation, and is able to dilate brain vessels.One of the indications for the use of Cavinton, in which it has a pronounced nootropic effect, is the complex therapy of traumatic brain injuries and concussions of the brain.

Cavinton is very well tolerated, both in the elderly and at a young age. The form of administration can vary: tablets 5 and 10 mg, or forms for parenteral administration.

Pantogam - a natural metabolite of gammaaminobutyric acid, one of the best nootropic drugs, which is shown even to children.

The active ingredient of the drug - hopantenic acid - is very well studied in pediatric psychoneurology, where it successfully treats many functional and organic disorders. Pantogam is available, including, in the form of a syrup with cherry flavor, which is why children like it so much. You can apply it even from the first days of life.

Like other nootropic drugs, Pantogam contributes to leveling the action of toxic substances on brain tissue, and has such a rare combination of a fairly light stimulating effect with a mild sedative effect. Therefore, in general, it can be considered a neutral drug. Thanks to this “selectivity”, “Pantogam” is used to treat cerebral palsy, various forms of mental retardation in childhood. The drug is gently able to correct mental retardation in children, at the same time it eliminates the "hyperactivity" syndrome, and neurosis-like states. This drug is used to treat neuro-reflex urination disorders (incontinence, enuresis).

"Semax" refers to unique drugs, since among nootropic agents, regulatory peptides (short chains of proteins), created in such a convenient form for instillation into the nose, have not yet been encountered. In fact, this drug is a structural analogue of ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone), which was specifically devoid of this hormonal activity. As a result, it is a powerful neuroregulatory agent with nootropic, protective and antioxidant effects.

It is important that the mechanism of drug administration into the body is physiological. Intranasal administration allows the drug to quickly penetrate the blood-brain barrier, and its effect lasts more than 24 hours after a single injection. The manufacturer declared only a slight irritation of the mucous membrane of the nasal passages with prolonged use.

Glycine is the most affordable and safest nootrop, is a truly "folk" drug that, thanks to its low cost and availability, can successfully compete with the most expensive drugs. This medicine differs from all others in that it is a purified amino acid from which, among other things, our proteins are composed. It is glycine that is part of GABA - ergic receptors - one of the mediators of inhibition in the central nervous system.

This drug is used for encephalopathy, in the treatment of memory disorders, in strokes in the elderly and as a prophylactic in schoolchildren and students.

Glycine is well tolerated, and is used in all those situations in which “mental burnout” occurred. It helps in stressful situations, both in adults and in children.Glycine suppresses light neurosis-like states, and is capable of relieving manifestations of vegetative-vascular dystonia, both in hypertensive and hypotonic variants.