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Neuroenhancement – perspectives of Swiss psychiatrists and general practitioners
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2012 QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY: Although the ethical and health implications of neuroenhancement have been intensely discussed over the past years, little is known about the experiences and attitudes of physicians confronted with requests for neuroenhancing
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A Survey of Substance Use for Cognitive Enhancement by University Students in the Netherlands
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2015 Background:Pharmacological cognitive enhancement, using chemicals to change cellular processes in the brain in order to enhance one’s cognitive capacities, is an often discussed phenomenon.
Kimberly Johanna Schelle +9 more
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Use and Propensity to Use Substances as Cognitive Enhancers in Italian Medical Students
Brain Sciences, 2018 International media has paid attention to the use of substances by healthy subjects to enhance cognitive performance. Medical students are liable to use cognitive enhancers (CE) with the aim of improving academic performance.
Marcella Pighi +7 more
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Promises and Perils of Neuroenhancement and its Perspectives for Military Ethics
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Philosophica, 2018 Current developments in the area of neuroenhancement pose multiple ethical and societal questions. Improvements in general cognitive capacities can have important positive effects. With the use of several interventions, ranging from pharmaceutics through
Marcin Orzechowski, Florian Steger
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Moral Enhancement by Technological Means: Possible, Permissible, a Duty? [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2016 Attempts to enhance individual and communal morality are as old as human communal living itself. But only recently have philosophers, bioethicists and scientists begun to seriously consider the possibilities and implications of employing technological ...
Toni Pustovrh, Monika McCollister Pirc
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The Neuroenhancement of Healthy Individuals Using tDCS: Some Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2014 Over the past two decades there has been increasing scientific interest in Human Enhancement, that is, the possibilities of expanding and enhancing the capabilities of healthy individuals with direct technological interventions into the body.
Toni Pustovrh
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Stem Cell‐Based Approaches for Neurotrophic Keratopathy: From Ocular Surface to Neuro‐Ophthalmology
Sensory Neuroscience, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Neurotrophic keratopathy is an uncommon, but potentially sight‐threatening, corneal disorder that results from impaired trigeminal sensory innervation. The loss of corneal sensation disrupts epithelial stability, weakens wound healing, and may lead to persistent epithelial defects, stromal ulceration, and, in the most advanced cases, corneal ...
Matteo Capobianco, Marco Zeppieri
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The direct assessment of explicit attitudes towards performance enhancing substances, for example Neuroenhancement or doping in sports can be affected by social desirability biases and cheating attempts.
Sebastian eSchindler, Wanja eWolff
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Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Problematic substance use (PSU) is a significant, inadequately managed people management challenge. Drawing on the conflicting outcomes and mutual losses perspectives on HRM and employee wellbeing, and using Job Demands‐Resources theory to explain underlying strain‐driven loss cycles, we examine factors shaping PSU and help‐seeking among 575 ...
Karen Maher +4 more
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Non-invasive brain stimulation and neuroenhancement
Clinical Neurophysiology Practice, 2022 Attempts to enhance human memory and learning ability have a long tradition in science. This topic has recently gained substantial attention because of the increasing percentage of older individuals worldwide and the predicted rise of age-associated ...
Andrea Antal +31 more
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