NSCI 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cherry Picking, Microdosing, Stage Fright
26 Apr 2019
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Speaker : melanie selgado, senior phd student: focusing on pharmaco-enhancement, will mention brain stimulation but briefly, the reading is optional, because it"s 20-page long, and policy-heavy. In terms of potential societal consequences: how does neuroethics factor into the equation , definition, some define it as anything that augments cognition, one way or another, regardless of the strength of the enhancement. But that could include sleep, because you perform better after a full night of sleep . If you want to write on this, those are things that you want to take into consideration, especially with statistics to back them up: nootropics, eg, piracetam = mostly an online diy community of bioenthusiasts. Has something to do with gaba and ampars. For example, parents are very susceptible to buying things. The lab theory behind that isn"t unreasonable: but issues when research is conducted by the companies themselves ; cherry-picking, pressure for results, framing strong incentives to produce positive results.
