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Cognitive enhancing drugs: neuroethical issues

by Barbara Sahakian
Cognitive enhancing drugs: neuroethical issues
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 2218 views
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Cognitive enhancing drugs are used to treat neuropsychiatric disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. These drugs improve the quality of life and wellbeing for patients and their families.

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Plagues and Parasites

by Nicholas White
Plagues and Parasites
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Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1343 views
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Contagions, or infectious diseases, which kill both fascinate and frighten us. Far from receding in importance as was expected fifty years ago in the heyday of new antibiotic discovery, infectious diseases remain a major cause of suffering and death ....

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The mechanics of memory

by Tim Bliss
The mechanics of memory
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 11 years ago | 1661 views
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How does the brain store and recall memories? A critical neural component of memory is the synapse, a specialist junction where one nerve cell releases a transmitter chemical to influence the excitability of another. Memorable events are thought to i....

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