cognitive enhancement

Brain doping: academics say yes

User Image dgmacarthur | December 9, 2008
A commentary in Nature by a group of psychologists, ethicists and neuroscientists has a controversial message: Based on our considerations, we call for a presumption that mentally competent adults should be able to engage in cognitive enhancement using drugs. [their emphasis] The authors call for a rejection of the common knee-jerk notion that cognitive enhancement in healthy individuals - using drugs like amphetamines or the fatigue suppressant modafinil, or other means such as brain stimulation - is somehow "cheating", "unnatural", or "drug abuse". None of these criticisms hold up to close…