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    effectiveness of Margaret Talbot’s argument in “Brain Gain: The Underground World of Neuroenhancing Drugs”. This article is about the use of stimulants as cognitive enhancers for high-functioning people and not the intended use for the drugs. The problem is whether or not these stimulants should be considered ethical for everyday use as a cognitive enhancer. Talbot effectively supports her argument that “neuroenhancers” should be allowed for everyday use through her use of testimonials and factual information/statistics

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    Awareness of Cognitive Enhancers The season is finally here, many college students are making their way into the library and cramming information left and right for finals in hopes of not failing. With scholarly grades, comes hours of study sessions and hard work which results in an tremendous amount of stress put on an individual. As a result, many students resort to a different route and illegally acquire cognitive enhancements drugs in hopes of balancing their education and personal life. My first

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    A common trend on college campuses is the use of performance enhancing drugs for both academic and athletic motives. Most college students know of someone who abuses one of these drugs with the most common being cognition enhancers like Adderall and Ritalin. (Greely 2008) These medications are only available legally by prescription, therefore students are illegally dealing to each other for the buying and selling of these drugs. Their purpose for using is to have an advantage over their peers, despite

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    Cognitive enhancers are substances that promote mental alertness and greater focus to people who use them as study aids. There are many brain enhancers available which are both synthetic and natural products. Natural cognitive enhancers are sold legally as supplements. These contain vitamins and natural herbs. There are also drugs that are marketed as the prescription medication for people with learning disabilities like those suffering Alzheimer's, ADHD, and Parkinson's disease. These drugs are

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    different ways to improve their cognitive ability for thousands of years. For example, education has been used in order to learn and improve on cognitive ability and to improve our understanding of the world (Bostrom and Sandberg, 2009). With the advance of technology, resources and medicine, humans have managed to develop cognitive enhancing drugs that improve our cognitive ability by improving the attention, motivation and working memory. One example of a cognitive enhancer that is commonly used today

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    Autumn Gold English 101 Evaluation Panda Express Price; quality; and quantity; those are the three main components one should look for in a decent place to eat. In today’s economy, with the amount of money we pay for food, we want enough to satisfy us and be worth the money. Quality is a high standard in today’s food industry. Customers want to know if the food they are consuming is made from fresh and natural ingredients rather than preservatives. Quantity is a must as people want a good amount

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    reputed food administrations deeming it GRAS (Generally recognized as safe) to consume. Glutamic acid is one of the most abundantly found amino acids in nature and in fact is the basic building block of all proteins. MSG has been used as a flavour enhancer in food

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    Nestle is founded in 1866 in Switzerland (News Desk, 2015). The name of company is Nestle S. A. Switzerland and, case study discusses about its subsidiary Nestle India limited. (1961) (News Desk, 2015). Head office of Nestle is in Gurgaon, Haryana, India (Gupta, 2016). Nestle India limited is producing various milk products, chocolates, beverages, and frozen goods (Gupta, 2016). The company is dealing in different brands which are Maagi, Milkmaid, Kitkat, Nescafe, Cerelac, and Everyday (Gupta, 2016)

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    Cognitive Psychology Smith (2001) defines psychology as the study of the mind. One major subset within the broad study of psychology is popularly known as cognitive psychology. According to Aukrust (2011), cognitive psychology is a branch of psychology that deals with the study of mental processes which includes how people or individuals think, perceive, learn and remember. As a part of the larger cognitive science field, this psychology branch is by means related to other disciplines such as neuroscience

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    substance known as Epicatechin (Epi). Through a research done using snails as test subjects, it has been proven that these substances are powerful bio-active substances that help to alter cognitive ability. It has been proven that Epi has led to lower rates of cognitive impairment whereby the improved cognitive performance is most significant in older people. In the experiment involving snails, the effect of Epi is tested through the ability for long-term memory (LTM) to be formed. LTM is memory

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