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Aims

The Capital Consortium for Neuroscience: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (CCNELSI) brings together faculty and students from academic and research institutions - as well as interested individuals from the general public and media - within the Washington Metropolitan Area to present, discuss and examine new and novel developments and issues in neuroscience, as they impact the philosophy of mind and science, ethics of research and medicine, and social constructs and policy. These topics are provocative and often controversial, not only stimulating discussion, but necessitating the exchange of ideas and perspectives, deepening of insight, and true dialectic. In sum, CCNELSI aims to review, contemplate and scrutinize progress in neurocognitive enhancement, trends in basic and clinical neuro-psychiatric research, neurotechnologic advancement, the utopian and dystopian possibilities of neural-machine interfacing, the status quo of existing paradigms, and the limitations and boundaries of neuroscientific inquiry and applications.

Format: A Forum and Nexus

The monthly discussions bring guest lecturers from the international academic and policy communities together with faculty and student scholars from the metropolitan D.C. area, and serve both as a forum for local scholars to present and discuss their work and its implications upon ELSI, and a nexus for collaboration between these scholars and the neuroethics community, at-large. Toward this end, the active participation of local area academicians and researchers is invited and encouraged, as this, in essence serves as a platform for your interests and ideas to be expressed and addressed. Scheduled meetings will held at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies (901 N. Stuart Street, Suite 200, Arlington, VA), from 4-6 PM. Admission is free of charge to faculty and students from academic institutions participating in CCNELSI, and is $15 to the general public.

Support and Administration

CCNELSI is an initiative of, and supported in part by the Center for Neurotechnology Studies of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Arlington, VA; Neurobioethics.org.

Participating institutions include: American University, Gallaudet University, George Mason University. Georgetown University, George Washington University, Howard University, The Institute for Psychological Sciences, and University of the District of Columbia CCNELSI was developed and is supervised by Prof. James Giordano, Senior Research Associate, Wellcome Centre of Neuroethics and Uehiro Centre for Practical Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK, and Chair of Academic Programs and Director of the Center for Neurotechnology Studies at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Arlington, VA. The program is coordinated by Guillermo Palchik, Ph.D(c), Interdisciplinary Program in Neurosciences, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

For additional information, tentative schedule, media access, or to register, please contact Guillermo Palchik at gpalchik@ccnelsi.com