Growing awareness of the opportunities and risks posed by pharmacological cognitive enhancement (aka “smart drugs”)

By SharpBrains | April 3, 2015

. More research need­ed on use of ‘smart drugs’ by healthy peo­ple (Med­ical News): “Drugs such as methylphenidate and modafinil, mar­ket­ed as Rital­in and Provig­il respec­tive­ly, are used by some healthy indi­vid­u­als in order to boost their cog­ni­tive per­for­mance, despite a gen­er­al lack of knowl­edge about 

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Event, webcast today focused on ethics of cognitive enhancement and neurotechnology

By SharpBrains | August 19, 2014

Heads-up: The Pres­i­den­tial Com­mis­sion for the Study of Bioeth­i­cal Issues is host­ing and live-stream­ing a great day-long event today, August 20th, includ­ing for­ward-look­ing dis­cus­sions such as “Eth­i­cal Con­sid­er­a­tions in Cog­ni­tive Enhance­ment” and “Direct-to-Con­­sumer Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy.” Agen­da: Here Live web­cast: Here About the Com­mis­sion: The Pres­i­den­tial Com­mis­sion for the Study of Bioeth­i­cal Issues (the Bioethics Com­mis­sion) is an…

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4 Essential (and Overlooked) Facts About Your Brain and Your Mind

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 17, 2013

An aspir­ing clar­inetist begins by get­ting a sense of the way the instrument’s sounds are pro­duced by the air she blows through it. A dri­ver must be acquaint­ed with var­i­ous vehi­cle fun­da­men­tals, such as adding gas, accel­er­at­ing, and read­ing the speedome­ter. It is no dif­fer­ent with the brain. Max­i­miz­ing your brain’s health and per­for­mance begins…

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