Biography:Jason Walter Brown

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Jason W. Brown (born April 14, 1938) is an American neurologist and writer of works in neuropsychology and philosophy of mind. He has been a reviewer and recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Institutes of Health and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and is or has been on the editorial boards of leading journals in his field. He has written 14 books, edited 4 others, and more than 200 articles.

Brown is the founder and active chief neurologist of the Center For Cognition and Communication "CCC". He founded the entity in 1985 in New York City, a specialized private practice in evaluating and treating traumatic brain injury.

Biography

Premedical studies at the University of California in Los Angeles, graduation from Berkeley in 1959. Medical school at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, with M.D. in 1963, internship at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C.

He returned to Los Angeles for a residency in neurology at UCLA. 1967–1969 in the Army, in Korea and San Francisco. In 1969, he took a post-doctoral fellowship at the Boston Veteran's Hospital. In 1970, he was invited to the staff of Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York as assistant professor. In 1972, he published his first book, Aphasia, Apraxia, and Agnosia. In 1976, he received a fellowship from the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry to spend a year at the Centre Neuropsychologique et Neurolinguistique in Paris. On his return, he joined the staff of New York University Medical Center, eventually as clinical professor in neurology. The academic year 1978–79 was spent as visiting associate professor at Rockefeller University.

The Center for Cognition and Communication (CCC) was established to provide treatment for clients with head injury, stroke, and other acquired and developmental disorders of cognition.

Since 2002, Brown and his wife Carine house and co-organize the Psychology Nexus workshops on South of France.[1]

Books

  • Brown, J. W. (1972). Aphasia, apraxia and agnosia. Clinical and theoretical aspects Springfield, IL: Thomas.
  • Brown, J. W. (1977). Mind, brain and consciousness. New York: Academic.
  • Brown, J. W. (1988). Life of the mind. New Jersey: Erlbaum.
  • Brown, J. W. (1991). Self and process. New York: Springer-Verlag.
  • Brown, J. W. (1996). Time, will and mental process. New York: Plenum Press.
  • Brown, J. W. (2000). Mind and nature: essays on time and subjectivity. London: Whurr.
  • Brown, J. W. (2001). The embodied self. New York: Station Hill Press.
  • Brown, J. W. (2005). Process and the authentic life. Toward a psychology of value. Heusenstamm: Ontos Verlag, De Gruyter.
  • Brown, J. W. (2010). Neuropsychological foundations of conscious experience. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Les Editions Chromatika.
  • Brown, J. W. (2011). Gourmet's guide to the mind. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Les Editions Chromatika.
  • Brown, J. W. (2012). Love and other emotions. London: Karnac Press.
  • Brown, J. W. (2014). Microgenetic theory and process thought. In preparation.
  • Brown, J.W. (2017). Metapsychology of the creative process. Continuous novelty as the ground of creative advance. Exeter: Imprint Academic.
  • Brown, J.W. (2017). Reflections on mind and the image of reality. Eugene, Oregon: Resource Publications.

Edited

  • Brown, J. W. (1973). Aphasia, tran. of A. Pick, Aphasie, Springfield: Thomas.
  • Brown, J. W. (1981). Jargonaphasia (Ed.) New York: Academic.
  • Brown, J. W. (1988). Agnosia and apraxia (Ed.) New Jersey: Erlbaum.
  • Brown, J. W. (1989). Neuropsychology of perception. New Jersey: Erlbaum.

Articles

  • Brown, J.W. (2013). in: Bradford, D. (2013) Microgenesis and the Mind/Brain State: Interview with Jason Brown, Mind and Matter, 11 (2) 183-203.
  • Brown, J.W. (2014). Feeling, Journal of mind and behavior,35.
  • Brown, J.W. (2017). Microgenetic theory of perception, memory and the mental state. Journal of consciousness studies, 24:51-70.
  • Brown, J.W. (2018). The nature of existence. Orpheus’ glance: selected papers on process philosophy, 2002–2017. P. Stenner and M. Weber Eds. Belgium: Les Editions Chromatika.
  • Brown, J.W. (2018). A process theory of morality, In M. Pachalska and J. Kropotov (Eds). Psychology, neuropsychology and neurophysiology: studies in microgenetic theory. Krakow: IMPULS.
  • Brown, J.W. (2018). Memory and thought. Proceedings of the Whitehead conference in the Azores, 2017, Nature and process. Teixeira, M-T and Pickering, J. (Eds). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018–19, in press.
  • Brown, J.W. (2018). Theoretical note on the nature of the present. Process studies, 47.1-2 (2018): 163-171.
  • Brown, J.W. (2018). Agency and the will. Mind and matter, 16:195-212.
  • Brown, J.W. (2020). Origins of subjective experience. The Journal of mind and behavior. Summer and autumn 2020, Volume 41, #3 and 4. Pages 270-279.
  • Brown, J.W. (2020). Time and the dream, Neuropsychoanalysis, 22:1-2, 129-138 DOI: 10.1080/15294145.2020.1835527.
  • Brown, J.W. (2021) The mind/brain state. The Journal of mind and behavior 42(1), 1-16.
  • Brown, J.W., Zhadiaiev, D.V. (2022). From drive to value. Process studies. 1 November 2022; 51 (2): 204–220. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/21543682.51.2.04.
  • Brown, J.W. (2023). Agency and freedom. Exploring consciousness - from non-duality to non-locality. (in press)

References

  1. ↑ See M. Weber's Preface of the Chromatikon X.

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