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BMC 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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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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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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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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Why (not) enhance the brain? A mixed-methods exploration of the acceptability and desirability of neuroenhancement [PDF]
, 2023 Neuroenhancement, the prospect of enhancing mental and cognitive capacities, raises important ethical questions that have been widely debated in academic and public spheres.
Bard, Imre
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Smart drugs and neuroenhancement: what do we know?
Frontiers 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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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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