Policy implications of technologies for cognitive enhancement.

Although not nootropics from the standpoint of cognitive enhancement, adaptogens are plants that help the body adapt to stress.

Status quo bias may be responsible for much of the opposition to human enhancement in general and to genetic cognitive enhancement in particular.

Regardless, I think it's clear that drugs that offer the promise of cognitive enhancement and greater work are going to be used in ever-greater numbers.

He found the "arms-race aspect" of cognitive enhancement distasteful, and didn't like the idea that parents might force their kids to take smart pills.

Given that cognitive enhancement is a choice, not a necessity, the cost-benefit calculation for neuroenhancers should probably be different than it is for, say, heart medications.

"Like all new technologies, cognitive enhancement can be used well or poorly," the article declared.

He argued that person's capability to learn is not solely determined by one's genetic make-up; but is on the contrary, cognitive enhancement is through mediation.

Was this cognitive enhancement actually no more than vanity, as frivolous as a face lift, but more deceptive, because in the end, you duped only yourself?

But anxiety sells, and there's a huge industry of tutors out there selling cognitive enhancement.