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Moral and social reasons to acknowledge the use of cognitive enhancers in competitive-selective contexts. [PDF]
BMC Med Ethics, 2016 Background: Although some of the most radical hypothesis related to the practical implementations of human enhancement have yet to become even close to reality, the use of cognitive enhancers is a very tangible phenomenon occurring with increasing ...
Garasic MD, Lavazza A.
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Cognition-Enhancing Drugs [PDF]
The Milbank Quarterly, 2004 New drugs that enhance cognition in cognitively healthy individuals present difficult public policy challenges. While their use is not inherently unethical, steps must be taken to ensure that they are safe, that they are widely available to promote equality of opportunity, and that individuals are free to decide whether or not to use them.
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Childhood Brain Development, the Educational Achievement Gap, and Cognitive Enhancement
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2018 Research on the effects of adversity on the brain of children initially encountered strong skepticism mainly due to the fear of stigmatization and the potential pathologizing of poverty as a disease. Despite initial resistance, an increasing body of work
Fabrice Jotterand, Fabrice Jotterand
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Sleep for cognitive enhancement [PDF]
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2014 Sleep is essential for effective cognitive functioning. Loosing even a few hours of sleep can have detrimental effects on a wide variety of cognitive processes such as attention, language, reasoning, decision making, learning and memory. While sleep is necessary to ensure normal healthy cognitive functioning, it can also enhance performance beyond the ...
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Dopaminergic Enhancement of Cognitive Function [PDF]
Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2006 The ascending dopamine system of the mammalian brain has been associated with motor, mnemonic and goal-directed or reward-related behaviour. The most progress in understanding the cortical mechanisms of dopaminergic modulation of function has been made with regards to short-term mnemonic (or working memory) function.
Mehta, M A, Riedel, W J
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Cognitive Enhancement in Humans [PDF]
, 2015 Contains fulltext : 237623.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Dresler, M., Repantis, D.
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Autonomy and the limits of cognitive enhancement [PDF]
Bioethics, 2020 AbstractIn the debates regarding the ethics of human enhancement, proponents have found it difficult to refute the concern, voiced by certain bioconservatives, that cognitive enhancement violates the autonomy of the enhanced. However, G. Owen Schaefer, Guy Kahane and Julian Savulescu have attempted not only to avoid autonomy‐based bioconservative ...
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Swiss University Students' Attitudes toward Pharmacological Cognitive Enhancement. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Pharmacological cognitive enhancement (PCE) refers to the nonmedical use of prescription or recreational drugs to enhance cognitive performance. Several concerns about PCE have been raised in the public.
Larissa J Maier +4 more
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Pharmacological enhancement of exposure-based treatment in PTSD: a qualitative review
European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2013 There is a good amount of evidence that exposure therapy is an effective treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Notwithstanding its efficacy, there is room for improvement, since a large proportion of patients does not benefit from treatment.
Rianne A. de Kleine +2 more
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The Ethical Implications of Cognitive Enhancers
, 2021 This review will explore the ethical use of cognitive enhancers which alter and improve cognitive function and performance. Cognitive enhancers are not only used in the treatment of certain cognitive disorders, such as schizophrenia and attention deficit
Tejani-Butt, Shanaz, Shearouse, Sydney
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