Prevalence Estimates for Pharmacological Neuroenhancement in Austrian University Students: Its Relation to Health-Related Risk Attitude and the Framing Effect of Caffeine Tablets

Prevalence Estimates for Pharmacological Neuroenhancement in Austrian University Students: Its Relation to Health-Related Risk Attitude and the Framing Effect of Caffeine Tablets

Background: Pharmacological neuroenhancement (PN) is defined as the use of illicit or prescription drugs by healthy individuals for cognitive-enhancing purposes. The present study aimed (i) to investigate whether including caffeine tablets in the definition of PN within a questionnaire increases the...

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Main Authors: Pavel Dietz, Benedikt Iberl, Emanuel Schuett, Mireille van Poppel, Rolf Ulrich, Matteo Christian Sattler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Pharmacology
Subjects:
message frame
cognitive bias
cognitive enhancing drugs
risk behavior
substance abuse detection
statistical distributions
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphar.2018.00494/full

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