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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.
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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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The Use and Impact of Cognitive Enhancers among University Students: A Systematic Review
Brain Sciences, 2021 Introduction: Cognitive enhancers (CEs), also known as “smart drugs”, “study aids” or “nootropics” are a cause of concern. Recent research studies investigated the use of CEs being taken as study aids by university students.
Safia Sharif +3 more
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Semiotics in the head: Thinking about and thinking through symbols
Philosophy 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
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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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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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, 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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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2018 Since two decades, neuroenhancement is a major topic in neuroethics and still receives much attention in the scholarly literature as well as in public media. In contrast to high hopes at the beginning of the “Decade of the Brain” in the United States and
Stephan Schleim +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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It Was Me on a Good Day: Exploring the Smart Drug Use Phenomenon in England.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 The non-medical use of prescription medication for the pursuit of increasing cognitive and intellectual capacities (defined neuroenhancement) has received growing attention from the scientific community and policymakers alike.
Elisabeth Julie Vargo, Andrea ePetroczi
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