CFP: CFP Special Issue Boosting Brain Performance: The Potential of Neuroenhancement for Health and Human Functioning

Boosting Brain Performance: The Potential of Neuroenhancement for Health and Human Functioning

Performance Enhancement & Health (PEH) invites submissions for a special issue on neuroenhancement, performance, and health. As a multi-disciplinary journal, we welcome research from a variety of fields that investigate the impact of neuroenhancement on human functioning and health.

Neuroenhancement refers to the use of drugs, devices, or other interventions to enhance cognitive, affective, and social abilities such as memory, attention, and creativity. The special issue aims to explore the effects of neuroenhancement on various aspects of performance, including productivity, creativity, learning, and decision-making.

Guest editors:

Francisco Javier López Frías, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Penn State, USA
Research Interests: The Ethics of Doping; The Use of Human Enhancement Technologies in Sport; Normative Theories of Sport

Laura Y. Cabrera, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Penn State, USA
Research Interests: the ethical and societal implications of neurotechnology and neuroscientific advances

Robert Martone, Ph.D., Associate Director, Neurological Biomarkers. Labcorp, USA
Research Interests: neurodegeneration, neuro-oncology, biomarkers and drug discovery

Armani Porter, Ph.D., Division of Social Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Special issue information:

Performance Enhancement & Health (PEH) invites submissions for a special issue on neuroenhancement, performance, and health. As a multi-disciplinary journal, we welcome research from a variety of fields that investigate the impact of neuroenhancement on human functioning and health.

Neuroenhancement refers to the use of drugs, devices, or other interventions to enhance cognitive, affective, and social abilities such as memory, attention, and creativity. The special issue aims to explore the effects of neuroenhancement on various aspects of performance, including productivity, creativity, learning, and decision-making.

Potential topics for submission include, but are not limited to:

• The effects of neuroenhancement on cognitive performance in different domains, such as work, education, the military, and sports.
• Ethical, social, and cultural implications of neuroenhancement.
• The impact of neuroenhancement on mental health and well-being.
• The use of neuroenhancement in clinical populations.
• Neuroenhancement and aging.
• Neuroenhancement in the workplace and its impact on employee performance.
• Neuroenhancement in education and its impact on academic performance.

Submissions can include quantitative and qualitative research, as well as theoretical and conceptual articles. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed, and those accepted will be published in the special issue of Performance Enhancement & Health.

Please note that manuscripts must fall within the scope of the journal, and all submissions will be evaluated based on their relevance to the topic of neuroenhancement, performance, and health. We encourage authors to contact the corresponding editor ([email protected]) to discuss their article and its suitability for the special issue.

Manuscript submission information:

For general guidelines on the appropriate preparation of manuscripts, please visit the journal’s website. Please submit your paper to Performance Enhancement & Health via https://www.journals.elsevier.com/performance-enhancement-and-health. 

Please select the Article Type “SI:Brain Boosting” during your submission.

Timeline:

Submission deadline: 14 December 2023
Publication date: Fall 2024

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Keywords:

Neuroenhancement; Cognitive performance; Health; Ethics; Human functioning

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