Using Substances to Enhance Performance: A Psychology of Neuroenhancement

• Main Author: Ralf Brand (auth)
• Other Authors: Wanja Wolff (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; neuroenhancement; performance enhancement; Doping; Behavior; cognitive enhancement
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Neuroenhancement (NE) is a behavior conceptualized as the use of a potentially psychoactive substance to enhance ones' already proficient cognitive capacities. Depending on the specific definitions used, prevalence estimates vary greatly between very low 0.3% (for illicit substances) to astonis...