Piracetam Benefits: 50 Years of Research on the World’s First Nootropic
A Belgian pharmaceutical chemist synthesized piracetam in 1964, and nobody knew what to call it. The compound improved memory and learning without sedation, stimulation, or toxicity. Dr. Corneliu Giurgea invented the word “nootropic” just to describe what piracetam did. You’re looking at five decades of human research on a molecule that changed how we think…