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Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy

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Today, on university campuses around the world, students are striking deals to buy and sell prescription drugs such as Adderall and Ritalin — not to get high, but to get higher grades, to provide an edge over their fellow students or to increase in some measurable way their capacity for learning. These transactions are crimes in the United States, punishable by prison.

Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht/Nature, 456 (No. 7223), 2008, p. 702-705, Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy, Greely H, Sahakian B, Harris J, Kessler RC, Gazzaniga M, Campbell P & Farah MJ, with kind permission from Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012.

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  1. Stanford Law School, Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California, 94305-8610, USA

    Henry Greely

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, MRC/Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical, Neuroscience Institute, Cambridge, UK

    Barbara Sahakian

  3. Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, and Wellcome Strategic Programme in The Human Body, its Scope, Limits and Future, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

    John Harris

  4. Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115-5899, USA

    Ronald C. Kessler

  5. Sage Center for the Study of Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 93106-9660, USA

    Michael Gazzaniga

  6. Nature, 4 Crinan St, London, N1 9XW, UK

    Philip Campbell

  7. Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, Room B51, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6241, USA

    Martha J. Farah

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Greely, H. et al. (2013). Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy. In: Hays, S., Robert, J., Miller, C., Bennett, I. (eds) Nanotechnology, the Brain, and the Future. Yearbook of Nanotechnology in Society, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1787-9_14

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