Prof. James Giordano, PhD, is Vice President for Academic Programs and Director of the Center for Neurotechnology Studies at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. Prof. Giordano, a neuroscientist and neuroethicist, will be a featured speaker at the upcoming New York University Center for Bioethics 2012 Conference on "The Moral Brain." The event will be held from March 30-April 1 at NYU, and is free and open to the public. The program is jointly sponsored by the NYU Center for Bioethics, Duke Kenan Institute for Ethics, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Prof. Giordano will participate in a discussion entitled, "Can Moral Behavior Be Improved or Enhanced?" 
The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies' Center for Neurotechnology Studies was pleased to welcome guests to the CNS booth at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, Neuroscience 2011, in Washington, DC. The annual SfN meeting attracts tens of thousands of professionals in neuroscience, medicine, and affiliated fields, and this year's event was no exception. Click below to watch the video being shown in this year's CNS booth, in which CNS Director and Vice President for Academic Programs at the Potomac Institute, Prof. James Giordano, PhD, talks about the mission of CNS and the significance of the annual SfN meeting.
Prof. James Giordano, PhD, is Vice President for Academic Programs and Director of the Center for Neurotechnology Studies at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. In a Letter to the Editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, he writes about the limits of neurotechnology's applications in the prediction and prevention of violent or antisocial behavior. Prof. Giordano writes that there is a public outcry for "science and technology to 'do something' to define, predict, and prevent violent social behavior." But he warns that not only is the technology not fully up to the task, but the risks that it will be hijacked for political purposes remains high. 