ArticleScience and engineering ethics2009
Cognitive enhancement: methods, ethics, regulatory challenges.
Article in Science and engineering ethics, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 105 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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105 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Cognitive benefits of exercise interventions: an fMRI activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis.Brain structure & function · 2021Pooled it
- Efficacy of stimulants for cognitive enhancement in non-attention deficit hyperactivity disorder youth: a systematic review.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2014Pooled it
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- Individual differences and motives for the acceptance of cognitive enhancement: A mixed-methods investigation.PloS one · 2026Article
- Exploring Cognitive Enhancers: from neurotherapeutics to ethical and regulatory challenges: a mini review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Review
- Ethical Issues in Memory Modification Technology: A Scoping Review.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2025Article
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- Adapting Ourselves, Instead of the Environment: An Inquiry into Human Enhancement for Function and Beyond.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2024Article
- Neurochemical Predictors of Generalized Learning Induced by Brain Stimulation and Training.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) as a tool for cognitive enhancement in healthy adults: a review study.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2024Review
- The rising use of cognitive enhancement drugs and predictors of use during COVID-19: findings from a cross-sectional survey of students and university staff in the UK.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Mapping cognitive function screening instruments for patients with heart failure: A scoping review.Belitung nursing journal · 2024Article
- Who Wants to Enhance Their Cognitive Abilities? Potential Predictors of the Acceptance of Cognitive Enhancement.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- Weak transhumanism: moderate enhancement as a non-radical path to radical enhancement.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2023Article
- Grand Theft Auto-Based Cycling Simulator for Cognitive Enhancement Technologies in Dangerous Traffic Situations.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The Ethics of Supernumerary Robotic Limbs. An Enactivist Approach.Science and engineering ethics · 2022Article
- On the (Non-)Rationality of Human Enhancement and Transhumanism.Science and engineering ethics · 2022Article
- Comparison of Dual Task Training Versus Aerobics Training in Improving Cognition in Healthy Elderly Population.Cureus · 2022Article
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Abstract
Cognitive enhancement takes many and diverse forms. Various methods of cognitive enhancement have implications for the near future. At the same time, these technologies raise a range of ethical issues. For example, they interact with notions of authenticity, the good life, and the role of medicine in our lives. Present and anticipated methods for cognitive enhancement also create challenges for public policy and regulation.
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