Cognitive Enhancement: Promises and Perils
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The potential use of drugs to enhance cognition, emotion, and executive function has engendered controversy despite the fact that few such agents exist today. Here, I provide a context for discussions based on medical, regulatory, and ethical concerns that have been raised by the possibility that enhancers will emerge from current efforts to discover drugs for neuropsychiatric disorders.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Neuron
دوره 69 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011