Religious faith, academic stress, and instrumental drug use in a sample of Western-African University students

W Wolff, SA Boama - Performance enhancement & health, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Neuroenhancement (NE), the use of substances in order to improve cognitive
performance, has received considerable scientific attention in recent years. Broadening this …

To dope or not to dope: neuroenhancement with prescription drugs and drugs of abuse among Swiss university students

LJ Maier, ME Liechti, F Herzig, MP Schaub - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Neuroenhancement is the use of substances by healthy subjects to enhance
mood or cognitive function. The prevalence of neuroenhancement among Swiss university …

Neuroenhancement among German university students: motives, expectations, and relationship with psychoactive lifestyle drugs

P Eickenhorst, K Vitzthum, BF Klapp… - … of psychoactive drugs, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Recent research has indicated that neuroenhancement (NE), the use of legal or illegal drugs
by healthy individuals to improve their cognitive performance, is widely practiced among …

Life context of pharmacological academic performance enhancement among university students–a qualitative approach

E Hildt, K Lieb, AG Franke - BMC medical ethics, 2014 - Springer
Background Academic performance enhancement or cognitive enhancement (CE) via
stimulant drug use has received increasing attention. The question remains, however …

Subjective stressors in school and their relation to neuroenhancement: a behavioral perspective on students' everyday life “doping”

W Wolff, R Brand - Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy, 2013 - Springer
Background The use of psychoactive substances to neuroenhance cognitive performance is
prevalent. Neuroenhancement (NE) in everyday life and doping in sport might rest on similar …

“It was me on a good day”: exploring the smart drug use phenomenon in England

EJ Vargo, A Petróczi - Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The non-medical use of prescription medication for the pursuit of increasing cognitive and
intellectual capacities (defined neuroenhancement) has received growing attention from the …

A survey of substance use for cognitive enhancement by university students in the Netherlands

KJ Schelle, BMJ Olthof, W Reintjes, C Bundt… - Frontiers in systems …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Background: Pharmacological cognitive enhancement, using chemicals to change cellular
processes in the brain in order to enhance one's cognitive capacities, is an often discussed …

Modeling students' instrumental (mis-) use of substances to enhance cognitive performance: Neuroenhancement in the light of job demands-resources theory

W Wolff, R Brand, F Baumgarten, J Lösel… - BioPsychoSocial …, 2014 - Springer
Background Healthy university students have been shown to use psychoactive substances,
expecting them to be functional means for enhancing their cognitive capacity, sometimes …

Students and" smart drugs": Empirical research can shed light on enhancement enthusiasm

B Partridge - Asian Bioethics Review, 2012 - muse.jhu.edu
Recent enthusiasm about pharmacological cognitive enhancement has often focused on the
use of prescription stimulants as a study aid by US university students. Despite the illegality …

Cognitive enhancement and coping in an Australian university student sample

C Riddell, C Jensen, O Carter - Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 2018 - Springer
Cognitive enhancement (CE) agents are those purported to improve or augment aspects of
cognition such as working memory, creativity, and executive function in healthy individuals …