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The ethics of neuroenhancement

2013
In the wake of our improving abilities to treat or modulate the impaired nervous system, we are also learning how we might improve the abilities of the healthy nervous system. We can modulate our motor, cognitive, and affective systems in ways that potentially enhance us.
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The Debate about “Neuroenhancement”

Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2011
Have you ever wanted to accomplish more than was humanly possible, given your current resources of time and energy?
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Language Is a Neuroenhancement

2022
Abstract This chapter argues that language is a neuroenhancement for grounded minds. The fact that much of our experience is mediated by language raises the question of whether language can itself serve as a source of grounding. The author proposes that its symbolic properties facilitate our capacity to encode abstract semantic content ...
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Neuroenhancing public health

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2013
One of the most fascinating issues in the emerging field of neuroethics is pharmaceutical cognitive enhancement (CE). The three main ethical concerns around CE were identified in a Nature commentary in 2008 as safety, coercion and fairness; debate has largely focused on the potential to help those who are cognitively disabled, and on the issue of ...
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Neuroenhancement: an Ethical Analysis

2007 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, 2007
Advancements in neuroscience have made it possible to markedly reduce human suffering. Various neuroenhancement methods find their applications not only among people afflicted with impairments of the nervous system, but also individuals without clearly defined abnormalities.
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The Ethics of Neuroenhancement

International Journal of Technoethics, 2015
According to several recent studies, a big chunk of college students in North America and Europe uses so called ‘smart drugs' to enhance their cognitive capacities aiming at improving their academic performance. With these practices, there comes a certain moral unease.
Nils-Frederic Wagner, Jeffrey Robinson, Christine Wiebking   +2 more
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Neuroenhancement and Law

2020
The extraordinary neuroscientific progress, through which we reach a broader knowledge of the brain mechanisms, and the many advances in technology, lead us to new areas of reflection. More specifically, with regard to the neuroscientific sector, the phenomenon of “neuroenhancement” comes to light, an expression that refers to the use of neuroscience ...
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Neuroenhancers, addiction and research ethics

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2012
In their recent paper in this journal, Heinz and colleagues accuse proponents of cognitive enhancement of making two unjustified assumptions. The first of these is the assumption that neuroenhancing drugs will be safe; the second is that research into cognitive enhancement does not pose particular ethical problems.
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The Societal Hazards of Neuroenhancement Technologies

2018
Using cognitive enhancement technology is becoming increasingly popular. In another paper, the authors argued that using pharmacological cognitive enhancers is detrimental to society, through promoting competitiveness over cooperation, by usurping personal and social identifies and thus changing our narrative and moral character.
Wagner, Nils-Frederic, Robinson, Jeffrey, Wiebking, Christine   +2 more
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Neuroenhancement

Zentralblatt für Arbeitsmedizin, Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie, 2019
D. Losch, J. Schulze
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