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The is and ought of the ethics of neuroenhancement: Mind the gap
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Ethical perspectives on the use of stimulants to enhance human cognitive performance (neuroenhancement) are polarized between conservative and liberal theories offering opposing advice on whether individuals have a right to use neuroenhancers and what ...
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 BackgroundCognitive disturbances of chronic cocaine users (CU) have been repeatedly investigated. However, it is yet unknown how CU using cocaine for cognitive or social enhancement differ from stimulant-naïve controls and CU that do not have these ...
Ann-Kathrin Kexel +7 more
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Cognitive and Moral Enhancement: A Practical Proposal
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 474-487, July 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT According to Persson and Savulescu, the risks posed by a morally corrupt minority's potential to abuse cognitive enhancement make it such that we have an urgent imperative to first pursue moral enhancement of humankind – and, consequently, if we are a long way from safe, effective moral enhancement, then we have at least one good reason to ...
Emma C. Gordon, Viola Ragonese
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Smart drugs "as common as coffee": media hype about neuroenhancement.
PLoS ONE, 2011 BackgroundThe use of prescription drugs to improve cognitive functioning in normal persons--neuroenhancement"--has gained recent attention from bioethicists and neuroscientists.
Bradley J Partridge +4 more
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, 2022 Neuroenhancement concerns the improvement of a person’s mental properties, abilities, and performance. The various techniques of neuroenhancement offer new opportunities of such improvement, but also come with substantive perils. Neuroenhancement thus involves significant normative challenges for individual persons as well as for society as a whole ...
Heinrichs, Jan-Hendrik +3 more
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Neurofeminism: Feminist critiques of research on sex/gender differences in the neurosciences
European Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 56, Issue 11, Page 5987-6002, December 2022., 2022 Levels of critique of the research process Abstract Over the last three decades, the human brain and its role in determining behavior have been receiving a growing amount of attention in academia as well as in society more generally. Neuroscientific explanations of human behavior or other phenomena are often especially appealing to lay people ...
Kassandra Friedrichs, Philipp Kellmeyer
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PLoS ONE, 2013 BackgroundNeuroenhancement is the use of substances by healthy subjects to enhance mood or cognitive function. The prevalence of neuroenhancement among Swiss university students is unknown.
Larissa J Maier +3 more
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Human Brain Mapping, Volume 43, Issue 14, Page 4225-4238, October 1, 2022., 2022 In this study, we investigated the effects of stimulants like methylphenidate, modafinil, and caffeine on latent memory and functional connectivity in a double‐blind randomized placebo controlled study in 48 healthy male adults. Our results show that performance in different memory tasks is enhanced, and functional connectivity specifically between the
Maxi Becker +3 more
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The Complexity of Neuroenahncement and the Adoption of a Social Cognitive Perspective
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 This contribution attempts to provide a broad perspective to the psychological study of neuroenhancement. It departs from the assumption that, as the use of performance enhancing substances in sport, the use of substances with the aim of improving one’s ...
Arnaldo eZelli +2 more
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Neural Plasticity, 2021 Recent pharmacoepidemiologic studies suggest that pharmacological neuroenhancement (pNE) and mood enhancement are globally expanding phenomena with distinctly different regional characteristics.
Johanna Daubner +8 more
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