Giorgio Bertini
Research Professor on society, culture, art, cognition, critical thinking, intelligence, creativity, neuroscience, autopoiesis, self-organization, complexity, systems, networks, rhizomes, leadership, sustainability, thinkers, futures ++
Networks
Learning Change Project
Categories
1200 Posts in this Blog
- Follow Learning Sciences on WordPress.com
Leonardo da Vinci
Tag Archives: drugs
Prenatal Drug Exposure Affects Neonatal Brain Functional Connectivity
Prenatal drug exposure, particularly prenatal cocaine exposure (PCE), incurs great public and scientific interest because of its associated neurodevelopmental consequences. However, the neural underpinnings of PCE remain essentially uncharted, and existing studies in school-aged children and adolescents are confounded greatly by postnatal … Continue reading
Following students on “study drugs”
An increasing number of healthy students dope themselves with ADHD drugs. What happens when ‘study drugs’ become normal? A new study sets out to find the answer. Having observed how students in the US and Denmark use study drugs, a … Continue reading
The Ethics of Designer Brains
When faced with these complex ethical questions, it is tempting to take sides either for or against biotechnology. Utopian proponents will argue that biotech will end human suffering. Detractors will label it “unnatural” (many of them in blog posts on … Continue reading
Ritalin and Other Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs Probably Won’t Make You Smarter
Too much memory, attention or willpower, instead of making us into uber-geeks, might drive us the way of the wooly mammoth. Our gift as a species—what brought us on an evolutionary track from the Flintstones to Steve Jobs — relates … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Cognitive neuroscience, Cognitive psychology, Drugs
Tagged cognition, cognitive neuroscience, drugs
Leave a comment
Learning Sciences 