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Bad moves : how decision making goes wrong, and the ethics of smart drugs / Barbara J. Sahakian and Jamie Nicole Labuzetta.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sahakian, Barbara J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Decision making.
- Nootropic agents--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Nootropic agents.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (180 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Making decisions is such a regular activity that it is mostly taken for granted. However, damage or abnormality in the areas of the brain involved in decision-making can severely affect personality and the ability to manage even simple tasks. Here, Barbara Sahakian and Jamie Nicole LaBuzetta discuss the process of normal decision making - our strategies for making decisions, biases that affect us, and influential factors - and then describe the abnormal patterns found in patients with conditions such as severe depression, Alzheimer's, and accidental brain damage. Using striking examples and ca
- Contents:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 Life choices; 2 Peering inside the 'black box'; 3 Extreme emotions and risky behaviour; 4 Interventions-drugs hit the press; 5 Professor's little helper-the ethics of enhanced cognition; Concluding thoughts; Endnotes; Acknowledgements; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; W; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-164553-2
- 1-299-26173-6
- 0-19-164552-4
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