Cognitive Enhancer

Steroid abuse by teen athletes and abuse of performance-enhancing supplements like creatine is also on the rise (Performance-enhancing drugs and your teen athlete, 2008, The Mayo Clinic). Although some teens may feel jaded and certain that they know ‘drugs are bad,’ and drugs fry your brain like the famous fried egg in a pan in the popular television commercial immortalized during the 1980s, many well-educated teens and young adults do not see the same risks inherent in prescription drugs or drugs that make them feel better or run faster (The Partnership’s fried egg message, 2008, Partnership for a Drug-Free America). “For a sizable group of people in their 20's and 30's, deciding on their own what drugs to take - in particular, stimulants, antidepressants and other psychiatric medications - is becoming the norm. Confident of their abilities and often skeptical of psychiatrists' expertise, they choose to rely on their own research and each other's experience in treating problems like depression, fatigue, anxiety or a lack of concentration. A medical degree, in their view, is useful, but not essential, and certainly not sufficient,” reports the New York Times, citing incidents of young adults

Talbot seems to be speaking to a wide audience: people who use neuroenhancing drugs, people who don’t, and people who may be thinking that they want to try them. Throughout her essay she seems to be for the use of these types of substances because she only uses anecdotes that show good experiences, and the bad experiences were solved with a quick easy adjustment in the dosage and time it was taken, or solved by sleeping it away, but still getting the work done on time. She uses the stories given to

Lamkin, Matt. “A Ban On Brain-Boosting Drugs is Not the Answer”. Practical Argument: A Text and Anthology. 2nd ed. Eds. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2014. 640-642. Print.

Cognitive enhancing drugs, or nootropics, are a category of substances that have been purportedly shown to positively impact a user’s cognitive performance in areas such as memory, creativity, motivation, and attention1. Some cognitive enhancing drugs (CED) include common medications such as Adderall, methylphenidate, modafinil with the majority of these substances, either prescribed to patients who have attentional disorders such as ADD and ADHD or memory disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s due to these positive impacts on cognition. CEDs can additionally be obtained online or in store as over-the-counter supplements2 and are not only restricted to prescription medications. Due to the shown cognitive enhancement these

In the modern world of college, an excessive use of the academic steroid, Adderall, has become an easily acquired study drug. It is important to note that Adderall use is becoming an increasingly prevalent issue among students, and can no longer be ignored. Many medical professionals have discovered the benefits of regularly taking Adderall, but unfortunately have unknowingly contributed to the ease of attainability of the academic steroid. Some may argue that the enhancer acts as a remedy to the growing need for focus, when in fact this resolution has led to a whole new set of overwhelming problems such as addiction and unnecessary use.

Sandra P. Thomas said in her short story “The debate about ‘Neuroenhancement’” that “In a study of more than 10,000 college students, rates were as high as 25% at some schools.” The use of such drugs are more likely seen in universities rather than community colleges. People who take neuroenhancement drugs may feel as if they have to since college is so competitiveness to get into. Neuroenhancement drugs are starting to become more popular. Thomas asked “Readers are you seeing young people in your clinical practice who are misusing stimulants?” Adderall, Ritalin, and Provigil are all drugs that people use to enhance the brain. Adderall and Ritalin are the most commonly used drug. Thomas stated in her essay that “The authors, prominent professors at institutions such as Stanford and Harvard, suggest that the drugs will prove ‘increasingly useful for improved quality of life and extended work productivity’” (669). Because neuroenhancing drugs are easily available, college students often use them despite the potential dangers posed by taking them without a prescription.

When reading the novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, it is unmistakably evident that the use of stimulants (soma) is the leading source of the society’s happiness. Drugs and medicine are used in both societies in many comparable and contrasting ways. Our “soma” takes a different form than it does in Brave New World, but a lot of the results are the same.

Second stage diabetes and bone degeneration can form over time losing strength as the athlete continues to age (“Performance-Enhancement Drugs Are Dangerous 3”). This evidence proves the risks and affects you deal with when dealing with performance-enhancement drugs. Athletes tend to have a change in behavior and start to feel untouchable after taking the performance enhancement supplements (Ungerleider 2). This evidence shows how the drugs can emotionally change the persona of an athlete. These are all ways of how performance-enhancement drugs can be dangerous.

Cognitive enhancement is a rapidly evolving medical advancement which has the potential to drastically change society as we know it. Cognitive enhancement technologies, such as pharmaceutical and genetic cognitive enhancement methods, raise a wide variety of ethical concerns despite their potential to greatly benefit society. This paper will focus on cognitive enhancement drugs, also known as nootropics, such as Adderall, Ritalin, and Modafinil. In this paper, I will argue that we have a moral obligation to utilize pharmaceutical cognitive enhancement methods in order to benefit society as a whole. I will also consider a potential objection to the presented argument which questions the benefits of cognitive enhancement drugs if their successful

Neuroenhancers are not difficult to obtain either with a prescription written by a physician, or from a family member that has been diagnosed with ADHD, or a form of mental- health issues.Seltzer comes to explore the idea that for some people it is important to enhance their mood so they go on to take antidepressants but for people like him it is important to enhance the brain so they take neuroenhancers. If people are properly informed about the risks and benefits of neuroenhancers, they can make an informed decision on whether to take them or not. Even though Drugs such as Adderall can cause nervousness, headaches, sleepless nights and decreased appetite, most people are being realistic about the effect of the drugs not to try and be the best but to simply aim to do better than they would otherwise not taking the neuroenhancers. Talbot comes to culminate that people who abuse the drug believe the pills are some sort of magical “smart drug” that have no side effects on the human

The Truth about Cognitive Enhancement Drugs Everyone is different when it comes to their abilities in school, for an example, some people are good test takers and some are not the luckiest of the bunch when it comes to bubbling in the right answers. The not so lucky ones have now turned to an alternative solution for the temporary problem. Some students are now using cognitive enhancing drugs illegally to help boost the possibility of getting a better grade. What are cognitive enhancing drugs you may ask?

The passage titles “Cosmetic Neurology: Tinkering with the Brain” by Carole Wade and Carol Tavris explains both the positive and negatives of “brain boosting” drugs. Cosmetic neurology is like cosmetic surgery but will sharpen your memory, concentration, and ultimately make you brighter; instead of changing body parts you are not too fond of. Is it ethical to take drugs for memory or concentration? But is it ethical to surgically change your body? Provigil is a drug for treating narcolepsy and also other sleeping disorders. Provigil can improve your memory and have other cognitive benefits. The drug improves short-term memory but demoting from long-term memory. Ritalin and Adderall are two drugs contrived for attention deficit disorders. An

The informational passage titled “Cosmetic Neurology: Tinkering with the Brain” by Carole Wade and Carol Tavris defends both sides of Cosmetic Neurology and whether it’s acceptable for humans to consume certain drugs. Cosmetic Neurology is a drug that changes your body and can also change the memories you have, sharpen memory or keep you more concentrated. People tend to have insecurities about themselves so some people use Cosmetic Neurology, such as people with disorders and many people in the world. In the passage the author explains the positives and negatives of Cosmetic Neurology, he supports his information from scientists and real-life situations. The positives of taking Cosmetic Neurology are they

interventions, which includes the cognitive training that is combined practicing ADL skills (Korner-Bitensky et al., 2011). Most popular training of cognition during ADL or instrumental ADL tasks was also conducted in Australian studies. However, when the definition was further defined to indicate cognition-specific interventions, it does not relate to cognition. Regarding cognitive interventions, the practitioners scarcely used words such as ‘memory’ and ‘orientation’ to describe the practices. Thus, it shows the reason why practitioners hardly use computed-remediation, verbal or picture instruction as their intervention. Despite the fact that this reveals the cognitive ideas that clinicians are focusing on, there was no trace of the therapeutic

According to, Bioethicist Thomas Murray, there are “two primary meanings to the term “enhancement” : first, “to advance, augment, elevate, heighten, increase”; and second, “ to increase the worth or value of.” …. “Numerous scholars have similarly noted [that] for an organism such as a human being, enhancement implies opportunities to improve capacities or abilities—features that can be simultaneously measurable and valuable, and possibly moral, as well.” In many instances there are different types of enhancements for humans there is physical enhancers and intellectual enhancers. In an article I was reading,“Enhancement stimulants: perceived motivational and cognitive advantages” by Irena P. Llieva and Martha J. Farah, talks about the misuse of psychostimulants, like Adderall and Ritalin, by people without ADHD for cognitive enhancement. The article goes further in depth by exploring “one potential explanation of this discrepancy: the possibility that the benefit from enhancement stimulants is at least in part motivational, rather than purely cognitive.” The results that were found at the end of Llieva and Farah’s study were that the “users [of Adderall and Ritalin] perceived stimulant effects on motivationally-related factors, especially “energy” and “motivation,” and reported motivational effects to be at least as pronounced as cognitive effects, including the effects on “attention.”” Meaning that the users whom did not have ADHD claimed that they did not feel any smarter before, after or during usage of the drug. Instead, users felt more motivated and focused to do their