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Prevalence of the use of prescription stimulants as “study drugs” by UK university students: A brief report

open access: yesBrain and Behavior
Introduction There is media concern over students using prescription stimulants as “cognitive enhancers” to try and improve their academic performance.
Ffinian Jones, Philip M. Newton
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Attention neuroenhancement through tDCS or neurofeedback: a randomized, single-blind, controlled trial [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Neurofeedback and transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) are promising techniques for neuroenhancement of attentional performance. As far as we know no study compared both techniques on attentional performance in healthy participants. We compared
Gabriel Gaudencio Rêgo   +2 more
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Promising applications of non-invasive brain stimulation on military cognition enhancement: a long way to go. [PDF]

open access: yesGen Psychiatr, 2023
General Psychiatry, Volume 36, Issue 5, October 2023.
Sun X, Yuan H.
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Replicating Cortical Signatures May Open the Possibility for “Transplanting” Brain States via Brain Entrainment

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021
Brain states, which correlate with specific motor, cognitive, and emotional states, may be monitored with noninvasive techniques such as electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) that measure macroscopic cortical activity manifested ...
Alexander Poltorak, Alexander Poltorak
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Just “Like Coffee” or Neuroenhancement by Stimulants?

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2021
Introduction: Pharmacological neuroenhancement (PN) is a topic of increasing importance and prevalence among students. However, there is a lack of differentiating PN substances, according to their psychoactive effects.
Andreas G. Franke   +9 more
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The polysemy of psychotropic drugs: continuity and overlap between neuroenhancement, treatment, prevention, pain relief, and pleasure-seeking in a clinical setting

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2020
Background Enhancement involves the use of biomedical technologies to improve human capacities beyond therapeutic purposes. It has been well documented that enhancement is sometimes difficult to distinguish from treatment.
Eisuke Sakakibara
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Semiotics in the head: Thinking about and thinking through symbols

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 107, Issue 2, Page 413-438, September 2023., 2023
Abstract Our conscious thought, at least at times, seems suffused with language. We may experience thinking as if we were “talking in our head”, thus using inner speech to verbalize, e.g., our premises, lemmas, and conclusions. I take inner speech to be part of a larger phenomenon I call inner semiotics, where inner semiotics involves the subjective ...
Wade Munroe
wiley   +1 more source

Pharmacological Neuroenhancement in the field of economics. Poll results from an online survey

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
Introduction: The use of over-the-counter, prescription, and illicit drugs to increase attention, concentration or memory – often called (pharmacological) neuroenhancement – shows a broad range of prevalence rates among students.
Pavel eDietz   +3 more
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Smart drugs and neuroenhancement: what do we know?

open access: yesFrontiers in Bioscience-Landmark, 2021
Introduction: Smart drugs are among the most common drugs used by students. It is estimated that they are second in incidence after cannabis. Although they are usually used for diseases such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and dementia,
Massimiliano Esposito   +7 more
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Neurotechnology and ethics guidelines for human enhancement: The case of the hippocampal cognitive prosthesis

open access: yesArtificial Organs, Volume 47, Issue 8, Page 1235-1241, August 2023., 2023
Abstract Neurotechnologies offer both therapeutic and enhancement potential. In this article, we demonstrate how ethics guidelines can help with critical reflection on their potential for enhancement. We do this through the case of the hippocampal cognitive prosthesis.
Yasemin J. Erden, Philip Brey
wiley   +1 more source

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