纪录片《药物依赖》 第11期：道德争论（在线收听）

Professor Sahakian found the drug had

萨哈金教授发现这种药物

also boosted levels of chemical messengers in healthy brains,

也可以提高健康大脑内化学递质的水平

increasing their concentration levels too.

进而也提高他们的专注性

We were a bit surprised that

我们有一些惊讶于

in healthy people you could boost cognition.

它也可以提高健康人的认知能力

It reveals ADHD is not a black and white disorder.

这表明 注意力不集中症状并不绝对

It's a spectrum, a spectrum we are all on.

它只是个范围 人人都可能有点

Some people are very impulsive,

有些人很冲动

other people are not impulsive at all.

有些人却一点也不

I think we all know friends of

我想我们都认识这样一些朋友

ours who might do something that we wouldn't do

他们会做出我们不会做的事情

and then it's a question of if we go

只要我们将范围扩大

further up that spectrum, that we may start to find somebody

我们就会开始发现

who is actually not functioning very well

有些人并不是很健康

because their impulsive behaviour or their lack of attention

因为他们的行为冲动或缺乏注意力

is very bad and therefore they do actually need a treatment.

是不好的表现 他们亟需治疗

This potential to make us all cleverer

这种使人变聪明的潜在可能性

opens an ethical minefield.

引发一场道德上的争论