Release date: March 5, 2008
Contact: Beverly Cox Clark at 404-712-8780 or beverly.clark@emory.edu

Renowned Neuroscientist Presents 'Life of the Mind' Lecture April 2

Video available: "When the Mind Fails: The Search for Pharmaceutical Remedy"

Emory University presents "Life of the Mind," a lunchtime lecture series that showcases one of Emory's leading faculty members each month.

Dennis Choi, a neuroscientist renowned for his groundbreaking research on brain and spinal cord injury, will discuss “When the Mind Fails: The Search for Pharmaceutical Remedy” on Wednesday, April 2 from noon to 1 p.m. Choi is executive director of the Neuroscience, Human Nature and Society Initiative within Emory’s university-wide strategic plan, and director of the Comprehensive Neuroscience Center in Emory’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center.

Framed in a way that non-specialists can understand, "the 'Life of the Mind' lectures will span the totality of what happens intellectually at Emory," said Santa Ono, vice provost for academic initiatives and deputy to the provost. The free lectures will include time for discussion.

Emory University "Life of the Mind" Lecture Series Information

Lectures will be held at noon in the Jones Room of Woodruff Library. Visitor parking is available in the Fishburne deck, 1672 N. Decatur Road. For more information, call 404-727-6055.

Previous "Life of the Mind" Lectures

Video - Theology professor Carol Newsom, "Three (Rather Different) Ways of Imagining Good and Evil", March 3, 2008

Video - Law professor Martha Fineman, “Reconciling Equality with the Inevitable Vulnerabilities of the Human Condition”, Feb. 6, 2008

Video - Philosophy professor Thomas Flynn, "Whatever Happened to Humanism (Secular or Sacred)?", Jan. 16, 2008

Video - Eddie Von Mueller, "The Empty Set: Labor, Technology, and the Transmogrification of 21st-Century Cinema", Dec. 5, 2007

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