The preceding decade has witnessed tremendous progress in clinical as well as theoretical
neuroscience. In its wake powerful new instruments of neuromodulation acting directly on the
brain have been developed. However few areas of scientific development seem to exhibit as
close a connection between dreams of progress and nightmares of disaster as contemporary
neuroscience. Mind doping is a populist slogan at hand suggesting a deprecatory parallel to
the practice of doping in sports. The present book subjects the whole range of questions
associated with these problems to a thorough exploration. Extensive state-of-the-art accounts
of the relevant clinical and theoretical neurosciences are followed by an in-depth
philosophical analysis of the problems of personal identity and a comprehensive disquisition on
legal and ethical questions posed by present and foreseeable future practices of
neuroenhancement. A concluding chapter presents the study's main results as recommendations
addressing clinical practitioners and researchers in the field as well as to politicians
legislators law courts philosophers lawyers and anybody fascinated by or concerned about
the dawning era of intervening in the brain. TOC:General Introduction.- Developmental
Psychopharmacology.- Neurotransplantation and Gene Transfer.- Central Neural Prostheses.-
Electrical Brain Stimulation for Psychiatric Disorders.- Person Personal Identity and
Personality.- Treatment-Prevention-Enhancement: Normative Foundations and Limits.- Conclusions
and Recommendations.
