Should drugs be used to enhance memory and concentration?

Technology Review wonders if we should use brain boosters. Their article is in reaction to a recent Nature commentary, "Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy." The position statement was written by a group of ethicists, psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists who are making the case that "cognitive enhancement, unlike enhancement for sports competitions, could lead to substantive improvements in the world."

Michael Gazzaniga, director of the Sage Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and one of the authors of the commentary, provides this great quote:

"All new technologies are at first resisted, even the typewriter. When changing mental states, people get antsy, especially when it appears to enhance capacity. There is somehow a sense one is cheating the system. Well, so is chemotherapy. When all of these new technologies are used in moderation and the right social context, they are a good."

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