Labuzetta Jamie Nicole (University Of Cambridge Department Of Psychiatry And Mrc/ Wellcome Trust) - Bad Moves How Decision Making Goes Wrong And The Ethics Of Smart Drugs - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 La Buzetta 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 case studies from their own research to show the impact of abnormal decision making they introduce the concept of 'hot and 'cold decision making based on the level of emotions involved showing that in various psychiatric conditions extreme emotions alter the pattern of decision making. Looking at the ways in which the brain can be manipulated to improve cognitive function in these patients they consider the use of 'smart drugs that alleviate these problems. The realization that smart drugs can improve cognitive abilities in healthy people has led to growing general use with drugs easily available via the Internet. They raise ethical questions about the availability of these drugs for cognitive enhancement in the hope of informing public debate about an increasingly important issue.
Title: Bad Moves How Decision Making Goes Wrong And The Ethics Of Smart Drugs
Author(s): Labuzetta Jamie Nicole (University Of Cambridge Department Of Psychiatry And Mrc/ Wellcome Trust)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199668489
Pages: 180 Pages
Publication Date: 6/23/2015
Category: “Neurosciences”; Uyq “Artificial Intelligence” & Following)