The use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by both ill and healthy individuals raises ethical questions that should not be ignored, argue Barbara Sahakian and Sharon Morein-Zamir.
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Barbara Sahakian and Sharon Morein-Zamir are at the University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry and the MRC/Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK.
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Barbara Sahakian consults for several pharmaceutical companies and for Cambridge Cognition. She also has shares in CeNeS.
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