One of the most widely discussed issues of neuroethics is cognitive enhancement. In this lecture Professor Farah reviews the science and ethics of pharmaceutical cognitive [...]
Neuroethics – Are Better Brains Better? (Anjan Chatterjee, MD)
Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, professor of neurology at Penn and faculty member of Penns Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Ethical dilemmas arising from advances in the neurosciences [...]
Personality and Mood Enhancement (Martha J. Farah, PhD)
Cognitive ability is not the only trait that people seek to enhance pharmaceutically. Personality and mood can also be altered pharmacologically and are increasingly used [...]
The Medication of Sadness (Robert DeRubeis, PhD)
Recent decades have seen progressively more inclusive definitions of depression in psychiatry, with less severe mood-related problems being classified as depression and correspondingly more patients [...]
A Clinician Looks at Enhancement (Anjan Chatterjee, MD)
Anjan Chatterjee, MD Dr. Chatterjee is Elliott Professor and Chair of Neurology at Pennsylvania Hospital. He has long been interested in the social and ethical [...]
The DSM-5 and Major Depression (Allan Horwitz, PhD)
Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and [...]
Wakefulness in the 24/7 Society (David Dinges, PhD)
David F. Dinges, Ph.D. Dr. Dinges is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Sleep and Chronobiology at Penn. His work focuses on [...]