Exhibits
5.1 and 23.1
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April
29, 2010
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CNS
Response, Inc.
85
Enterprise, Suite 410
Aliso
Viejo, California 92656
Re: Registration
Statement on Form S-8
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
In our
capacity as counsel to CNS Response, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), we have been asked
to render this opinion in connection with a registration statement on Form S-8
(the “Registration
Statement”), being filed contemporaneously herewith by the Company with
the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the “Act”),
covering 10,000,000 shares (the “Shares”) of common stock, par
value $0.001 per share, of the Company issuable pursuant to the terms of the
Company’s Amended and Restated 2006 Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).
We are
delivering this opinion to the Company at its request in accordance with the
requirements on Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Act.
In
connection with rendering this opinion, we have examined and are familiar with
(i) the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, (ii) the Company’s
By-Laws, (iii) the Plan, (iv) the Registration Statement, (v) corporate
proceedings of the Company relating to the Plan, and (vi) such other instruments
and documents as we have deemed relevant under the circumstances.
In making
the aforesaid examinations, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures
and the conformity to original documents of all copies furnished to us as
original or photostatic copies. We have also assumed that the corporate records
furnished to us by the Company include all corporate proceedings taken by the
Company to date.
Based
upon the foregoing and subject to the assumptions and qualifications set forth
herein, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly and validly
authorized and, when issued and paid for in accordance with the terms of the
Plan, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and
non-assessable.
The
foregoing opinion is limited to the laws of the United States of America and
Delaware corporate law (which includes the Delaware General Corporation Law and
applicable provisions of the Delaware constitution, as well as reported judicial
opinions interpreting same) and does not purport to express any opinion on the
laws of any other jurisdiction.
CNS
Response, Inc.
April 29,
2010
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We hereby
consent to the use of our opinion as an exhibit to the Registration
Statement. In giving such consent, we do not hereby admit that we
come within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of
the Act, or the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission
thereunder.
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Very
truly yours,
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SONNENSCHEIN
NATH & ROSENTHAL
LLP
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