Neuroenhancement - Responsible Research and Innovation
NERRI is a three-year project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. It aims at facilitating societal dialogue about neuroenhancement and contributing to a normative framework for the governance of this emerging field.
Neuroenhancement is an intensely debated issue and it most commonly denotes the use of various technologies, such as psychotropic drugs, brain stimulation technologies or other interventions to improve cognitive or behavioural functioning in healthy people, who have no medical need to use such technologies.
Under what conditions is neuroenhancement ethically acceptable? When is it desirable, or even obligatory? What should be the scope of individual choice in relation to these technologies?
Between 2013-2016 NERRI Project partners in 10 European countries, involving 18 institutions will promote a broad societal dialogue about this subject. This will be achieved by organising Mutual Learning Activities, bringing together a variety of societal stakeholders, including scientists, policy-makers, industry, civil society groups, patients and the wider public.
Project members at LSE:
Professor George Gaskell, Principal Investigator
Imre Bard, Research Officer