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nootropic
1. Activating or stimulating mental activity.
2. Causing cerebral or intellectual activity.
3. Tending to affect neurons favorably.
5. A reference to a drug used to enhance memory or other cognitive functions.
6. Etymology: the word nootropic is derived from the Greek words noos or "mind" and tropos, "a growth".

Affecting the mind; especially, the intellectual aspects (cognition, memory, understanding, etc.); used to describe drugs that improve cognitive functioning in people who are organically impaired.

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