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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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Neuroenhancement

, 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, Rüther, Markus, Stake, Mandy, Ihde, Julia   +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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Cognitive enhancement: Effects of methylphenidate, modafinil, and caffeine on latent memory and resting state functional connectivity in healthy adults

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, Dimitris Repantis, Martin Dresler, Simone Kühn   +3 more
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Pharmacological Neuroenhancement: Current Aspects of Categorization, Epidemiology, Pharmacology, Drug Development, Ethics, and Future Perspectives

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, Muhammad Imran Arshaad, Christina Henseler, Jürgen Hescheler, Dan Ehninger, Karl Broich, Oliver Rawashdeh, Anna Papazoglou, Marco Weiergräber   +8 more
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How Realistic Are the Scientific Assumptions of the Neuroenhancement Debate? Assessing the Pharmacological Optimism and Neuroenhancement Prevalence Hypotheses

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, Boris B. Quednow, Boris B. Quednow   +2 more
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Neuroenhancement of exposure therapy in anxiety disorders [PDF]

, 2015
Although exposure-based treatments and anxiolytic medications are more effective than placebo for treating anxiety disorders, there is still considerable room for further improvement.
Curtiss, Joshua, Hofmann, Stefan G., Mundy, Elizabeth A.   +2 more
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Pharmaceutical cognitive enhancement in Greek university students: differences between users and non-users in social cognitive variables, burnout and engagement [PDF]

, 2017
Pharmaceutical cognitive enhancement (PCE) represents the non-medical use of prescribed medication for the improvement of cognitive functioning and academic performance. Although there are some studies about PCE prevalence, it is less clear how users and
Ajzen I., Antonia Ypsilanti, Barkoukis V., Belin D., Castaldi S., Christos Kontogiorgis, Csikszentmihalyi M., de Wit H., Efthymios Lamprou, Fishbein M., González-Romá V., Greely H., Hildt E., Howard M. O., Judson R., Lambros Lazuras, Lucke J. C., Lucke J. C., Montaño D. E., Partridge B., Partridge B. J., Petróczi A., Plachouras D., Repantis D., Sandberg T., Schaufeli W. B., Schaufeli W. B., Wolff W., Wolff W.   +28 more
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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
Regula Ott, Christian Lenk, Nicole Miller, Rachel Neuhaus Bühler, Nikola Biller-Andorno   +4 more
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Language as a disruptive technology: Abstract concepts, embodiment and the flexible mind [PDF]

, 2018
A growing body of evidence suggests that cognition is embodied and grounded. Abstract concepts, though, remain a significant theoretical chal- lenge. A number of researchers have proposed that language makes an important contribution to our capacity to ...
Dove, Guy
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