Prof. James Giordano, PhD, is a neuroscientist, Vice President for Academic Programs and Director of the Center for Neurotechnology Studies at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. In an essay for a Government Security News series on national security since 9/11, he writes about increasing interest in the use of neuroscience and neurotechnology to predict - and perhaps prevent - violence and terrorism. He writes that while we are "headed inexorably down this path," it is an avenue strewn with legal, social and ethical hazards. Click here to read the article in full.