Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy

Henry Greely, Barbara Sahakian, John Harris, Ronald C. Kessler, Michael Gazzaniga, Philip Campbell and Martha J. Farah
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Henry Greely: Henry Greely is at Stanford Law School, Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305-8610, USA. hgreely@stanford.edu
Barbara Sahakian: University of Cambridge, and MRC/Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Cambridge, UK. jenny.hall@cpft.nhs.uk
John Harris: John Harris is at the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, and Wellcome Strategic Programme in The Human Body, its Scope, Limits and Future, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. john.harris@manchester.ac.uk
Ronald C. Kessler: Ronald C. Kessler is at Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5899, USA. kessler@hcp.med.harvard.edu
Michael Gazzaniga: Michael Gazzaniga is at the Sage Center for the Study of Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-9660, USA. m.gazzaniga@psych.ucsb.edu
Philip Campbell: Philip Campbell is at Nature, 4 Crinan St, London N1 9XW, UK. nature@nature.com
Martha J. Farah: Martha J. Farah is at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Room B51, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6241, USA. mfarah@psych.upenn.edu

Nature, 2008, vol. 456, issue 7223, 702-705

Abstract: Society must respond to the growing demand for cognitive enhancement. That response must start by rejecting the idea that 'enhancement' is a dirty word, argue Henry Greely and colleagues.

Date: 2008
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