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Cognitive Enhancement

Transforming Ourselves: NYAS Panel Examines Human Enhancement

Reproductive technology, human brain enhancement, mind control, and accelerated evolution were several topics addressed by speakers at a public symposium at New York Academy of Sciences.
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Cognitive Enhancement

Smart Drugs in Health and Disease

Drugs that enhance cognition might benefit people who have cognitive troubles due to depression or schizophrenia, said researcher Barbara Sahakian in a recent lecture at University College London.
Cognitive Enhancement

Enhancing Brains

What Are We Afraid Of?

In 2008, Henry T. Greely, a professor at Stanford Law School, co-authored a commentary in Nature; it concluded that “safe and effective cognitive enhancers will benefit both the individual and society.” Here, he argues that only some concerns about the use of cognitive enhancements are justified; proper attention is needed to address these issues. He contends that rather than banning cognitive enhancements, as some have suggested, we should determine rules for their use.
Cognitive Enhancement

Shall We Enhance? A Debate

A leading bioethicist squares off with a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics on the controversy about pursuing better brains with a little help from biotechnology.
Cognitive Enhancement

DARPA on Your Mind

Current research at the intersection of neuroscience and national security might one day produce weapons that literally boggle (or, if desired, enhance) the mind. This would give us unprecedented war-fighting superiority as well as a set of ethical dilemmas that could make genetically-modified-organism issues pale in comparison.

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