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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Cognitive Enhancement"”.
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Manipulating the Mind: The Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement
Cognitive enhancement involves the use of any natural or artificial intervention to improve cognitive functions--memory, learning, attention, focus, wakefulness, and so on--in normal individuals. Although many interventions including education and the use of computers can be called cognitive …
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Cocaine self-administration in rhesus monkeys: effects on neurobiology and cognition and evaluation of cognitive enhancement for addiction treatment
… research is to characterize neurobiological and cognitive deficits associated with cocaine use in monkeys, and examine cognitive enhancement as a pharmacotherapeutic approach to compliment behavioral methods.
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PPARγ-pERK interaction restores memory consolidation in an Alzheimer’s disease model
Cognitive impairment is a quintessential feature of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD mouse models. We and others have previously reported the peroxisome-proliferator activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) agonist rosiglitazone improves hippocampus-dependent cognitive deficits in some AD patients and …
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A neurophysiological and proteomic study of cognitive enhancing strategies
Improving cognitive function is a growing area of interest for pharmaceutical companies. With an ageing population, cognitive decline is becoming a greater problem. Understanding the physiological effects of nootropic drugs and the changes that occur during cognitive enhancement will enable the …
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Metering Mood with Veggies: Association of skin carotenoid levels and depressive symptoms or mood disturbances
… and depressive symptoms or mood disturbances in cognitively normal older adults. Design: Baseline data were collected from 109 cognitively normal men and women ages 65 years and older from the Nutrition Interventions for Cognitive Enhancement (NICE) cohort study. Skin carotenoid status was …
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Ventral Tegmental Area Neuronal Responses to Methylphenidate Correlated to Behavioral Responses of Adolescent and Adult Rats
… disorder and more recently is being used as a cognitive enhancement and recreational drug. Its therapeutic effects are not fully understood, nor are the long term effects of the drug on brain development. The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is a site of psychostimulant action thought to be …
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Swimming against the tide : the implementation of philosophy for children in the primary classroom
Philosophy for Children is a cognitive enhancement programme that utilises Socratic questioning and a dialogic pedagogy to develop the reasoning, creativity, social skills and ethical understanding of children. An abundance of research has established P4C’s efficacy in achieving these aims (Trickey …
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Personalized Multimodal MRI-Guided Theta Burst Brain Stimulation for Effective Memory Enhancement in Mild Cognitive Impairment
… in enhancing intervention strategies for mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The research begins by exploring the foundations of TMS and its potential to alter disease progression through neuroplastic mechanisms. It highlights how advancements in neuroimaging significantly improve the specificity …
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Enhancing Cross-Cultural Communication and Cognitive Health Through Chinese Papercutting: A Comparative Study of Welsh and Chinese Adults
… of traditional Chinese papercutting art with cognitive health and cross-cultural communication within the Welsh context. It introduces the "Chinese Papercutting Cross-Cultural Cognitive Enhancement Model" as a pioneering intervention, an original contribution to the field, developed to address …
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Relational Skills and Intelligence: Developing a Functional Account of Intellectual Performance and its Enhancement
… that has not been replicated by other ‘cognitive enhancement’ protocols. In addition, the insights gleaned from the current set of analyses add further weight to the suggestion that intelligence may be reconsidered as a clearly-defined, functionally-understood, and malleable behavioural …
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How Can the Use of Human Enhancement (HE) Technologies in the Military Be Ethically Assessed?
<p>War is a terrible price to pay for the prospect of peace. Yet every nation has a moral obligation to protect its citizenry from unjust aggression and threats to security. To be sure, war is always a failure. It is a failure of mankind to come together in mutual respect for the inherent dignity …
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Pharmacological modulation of learning and memory in mice and zebrafish: Implications for Alzheimer’s disease animal models
… people worldwide. Current AD treatments target cognitive decline or failure and provide only minor benefits across the array of clinical symptoms. The development of numerous treatment strategies have been trailed in pre-clinical, or human clinical trials. One of the potential candidates to be …