Does semax improve focus and cognition?
It is studied for this. Its approved uses in Russia and Ukraine include thinking problems. It is thought to work by raising BDNF, a protein that helps brain cells grow and survive. This site's review found one study in people for semax, covering 110 people. That shows the idea is being studied seriously, but it is thinner evidence than large, careful studies repeated by many groups would give.
Studies in people from the compound pages this answer belongs to
- Semax
- The efficacy of semax in the treatment of patients at different stages of ischemic stroke 2018 PMID 29798983
- [Effectiveness of semax in acute period of hemispheric ischemic stroke (a clinical and electrophysiological study)] 1997 PMID 11517472
- [Semax in prevention of disease progress and development of exacerbations in patients with cerebrovascular insufficiency] 2005 PMID 15792140
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