'
Jason W. Brown
'' (born April 14, 1938) is an American

neurologist Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal ...

and writer of works in

neuropsychology Neuropsychology is a branch of psychology concerned with how a person's cognition and behavior are related to the brain and the rest of the nervous system. Professionals in this branch of psychology often focus on how injuries or illnesses of t ...

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 th
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 The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Fran ...

in Los Angeles, graduation from Berkeley in 1959. Medical school at the

University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8. ...

in Los Angeles, with

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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

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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 NYU Langone Health is an academic medical center located in New York City, New York, United States. The health system consists of NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Long Island School of Medicine, both part of New York University (NYU), and m ...

, eventually as clinical professor in

neurology Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal ...

. The academic year 1978–79 was spent as visiting associate professor at

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. Th
Center for Cognition and Communication
(CCC) was established to provide treatment for clients with

head injury A head injury is any injury that results in trauma to the skull or brain. The terms ''traumatic brain injury'' and ''head injury'' are often used interchangeably in the medical literature. Because head injuries cover such a broad scope of in ...

, stroke, and other acquired and

developmental disorders Developmental disorders comprise a group of psychiatric conditions originating in childhood that involve serious impairment in different areas. There are several ways of using this term. The most narrow concept is used in the category "Specific Di ...

cognition Cognition refers to "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses all aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as: perception, attention, thoug ...

. Since 2002, Brown and his wife Carine house and co-organize the Psychology Nexus workshops on South of France.See M. Weber's Preface of th
Chromatikon X

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 Self-Embodied Mind: Process, Brain Dynamics, and the Conscious Present''. Barrytown: 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. * Brown, J.W. (2024),
Ausgewählte Aufsätze zu einer Prozesspsychologie
'. Herausgegeben von Paul Stenner und Denys Zhadiaiev Von Dr. Jason W. Brown. Verlag Karl Alber: Baden-Baden ISBN 978-3-495-99305-7 (Whitehead Studien, Bd. 11), 2024 * Brown, J.W., Stenner, P. (2024)
''The Microgenetic Theory of Mind and Brain''. ''Selected Essays in Process Psychology''
(Ed. Denys Zhadiaiev). Routledge: New York. ISBN 9781032873848, Dec 6, 2024

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 *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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Jason Walter American neurologists American philosophers of mind 1938 births Living people New York University Grossman School of Medicine faculty Keck School of Medicine of USC alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni