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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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  1. Department of Psychiatry and the MRC/Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Barbara Sahakian and Sharon Morein-Zamir are at the University of Cambridge, 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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Sahakian, B., Morein-Zamir, S. Professor's little helper. Nature 450, 1157–1159 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/4501157a

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