Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Improving introspection to inform free will regarding the choice by healthy individuals to use or not use cognitive enhancing drugs | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Commentary Improving introspection to inform free will regarding the choice by healthy individuals to use or not use cognitive enhancing drugs David S Thaler Open Access Address Raymond and Beverly Sackler Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Informatics Rockefeller University New York New York USA Email David S Thaler - thalerd@ Published 16 June 2009 Harm Reduction Journal 2009 6 10 doi 1477-7517-6-10 Received 16 January 2009 Accepted 16 June 2009 This article is available from http content 6 1 10 2009 Thaler licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract A commentary in Nature entitled Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy Greely et al 2008 Nature 456 702-705 offers an opportunity to move toward a humane societal appreciation of mind-altering drugs. Using cognitive enhancing drugs as an exemplar this article presents a series of hypotheses concerning how an individual might learn optimal use. The essence of the proposal is that individuals can cultivate sensitivity to the effects of ever-smaller amounts of psychoactive drugs thereby making harm less likely and benign effects more probable. Four interrelated hypotheses are presented and briefly discussed. 1. Humans can learn to discriminate ever-smaller doses of at least some mind-altering drugs a learning program can be designed or discovered that will have this outcome. 2. The skill to discriminate drugs and dose can be generalized . if learned with one drug a second one is easier and so on. 3. Cultivating this skill knack would be beneficial in leading to choices informed by a more accurate sense of mind-body interactions. 4. From a .
