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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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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 +4 more
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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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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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Placebo- and Nocebo-Effects in Cognitive Neuroenhancement: When Expectation Shapes Perception
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019 Objective: The number of students using prescription drugs to improve cognitive performance has increased within the last years. There is first evidence that the expectation to receive a performance-enhancing drug alone can result in improved perceived ...
Alexander Winkler, Christiane Hermann
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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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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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