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Pharmacological cognitive enhancement : how neuroscientific research could advance ethical debate
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There are numerous ways people can improve their cognitive capacities: good nutrition and regular exercise can produce long-term improvements across many cognitive domains, whilst commonplace stimulants such as coffee temporarily boost levels of alertness and concentration. Effects like these have been well-documented in the medical literature and they raise few (if any) ethical issues. More recently, however, clinical research has shown that the off-label use of some pharmaceuticals can, und...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Wellcome Trust
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Funding agency for:
Maslen, H
Faulmüller, N
Savulescu, J
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086041/Z/08/Z
086041/Z/08/Z
086041/Z/08/Z
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Oxford Martin School
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Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Frontiers Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience Journal website
- Volume:
- 8
- Pages:
- Article 107
- Publication date:
- 2014-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1662-5137
- ISSN:
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1662-5137
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:9792
- Deposit date:
- 2015-01-23
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- Copyright holder:
- Maslen et al
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2014 Maslen, Faulmüller and Savulescu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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