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Impact of Contextual Factors and Substance Characteristics on Perspectives toward Cognitive Enhancement

open access: yes, 2013
Sattler S, Forlini C, Racine É, Sauer C. Impact of Contextual Factors and Substance Characteristics on Perspectives toward Cognitive Enhancement. PLoS ONE. 2013;8(8): e71452.Enhancing cognitive performance with substances–especially prescription drugs–is
Racine, Éric   +9 more
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Chemically modified minds: Substance use for cognitive enhancement

open access: yes, 2020
This innovative edited collection brings together leading international academics to explore, from a psychosocial perspective, the use of various non-prescription and prescription substances showing the complex reasons behind their adoption, and the ways
Forshaw, Mark; id_orcid   +3 more
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Methods for Delivering and Evaluating the Efficacy of Cognitive Enhancement

open access: yes, 2015
Cognitive deficits are related to impaired everyday functioning in multiple conditions and in healthy individuals. Treatment of cognitive functioning can be facilitated through either pharmacological or remediation strategies.
Harvey, Philip D   +3 more
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Cognitive Enhancement via Network-Targeted Cortico-cortical Associative Brain Stimulation

open access: yes, 2020
Fluid intelligence (gf) represents a crucial component of human cognition, as it correlates with academic achievement, successful aging, and longevity. However, it has strong resilience against enhancement interventions, making the identification of gf ...
Coiro, G   +9 more
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Pharmacological Human Enhancement: An Overview of the Looming Bioethical and Regulatory Challenges

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
Cognitive enhancement, a rather broad-ranging principle, can be achieved in various ways: healthy eating and consistent physical exercise can lead to long-term improvements in many cognitive domains; commonplace stimulants such as caffeine, on the other ...
Giovanna Ricci
doaj   +1 more source

Developments and challenges in human performance enhancement technology

open access: yesMedicine in Novel Technology and Devices, 2021
As emerging technologies have advanced, some countries have issued reports on human performance enhancement efforts in recent years. Human performance enhancement is a prominent theme in the military field. As a type of potentially disruptive technology,
Shuyu Shao, Jintao Wu, Qianxiang Zhou
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The Rationale for Consuming Cognitive Enhancement Drugs in University Students and Teachers

open access: yes, 2013
Sattler S, Sauer C, Mehlkop G, Graeff P. The Rationale for Consuming Cognitive Enhancement Drugs in University Students and Teachers. PLoS ONE. 2013;8(7): e68821.Cognitive enhancement (CE) is the pharmaceutical augmentation of mental abilities (e.g ...
Carsten Sauer   +15 more
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Self-enhancement and self-protection: what they are and what they do [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
We define self-enhancement and self-protection as interests that individuals have in advancing one or more self-domains or defending against negative self-views. We review ways in which people pursue self-enhancement and self-protection, discuss the role
Sedikides, Constantine   +3 more
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Use of Cognitive Enhancers by Portuguese Medical Students: Do Academic Challenges Matter?

open access: yesActa Médica Portuguesa, 2022
Introduction: Nonmedical use of prescription drugs and other substances for cognitive enhancement in the academic environment has been documented in several studies. However, the prevalence among Portuguese university students is unknown.
Miguel Miranda, Miguel Barbosa
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Harnessing the power of theta: Natural manipulations of cognitive performance during hippocampal theta-contingent eyeblink conditioning

open access: yesFrontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2015
Neurobiological oscillations are regarded as essential to normal information processing, including coordination and timing of cells and assemblies within structures as well as in long feedback loops of distributed neural systems.
Loren C Hoffmann   +2 more
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