Jason Walter Brown

{{Short description|American neurologist}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Jason W. Brown

| image = Dr. Jason Walter Brown, March 2024.png

| birth_date = April, 14, 1938

| birth_place = New York

| education = College: University of California, Los Angeles/Berkeley, BA 1959

| alma_mater = Medical School: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, MD 1963

| occupation = Clinical Professor, Neurology (Retd)

| organization = New York University Medical Center

| notable_works = 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|978-1-032-87384-8}}, Dec 6, 2024

| title = Dr., MD.

| awards = COPERNICUS PRIZE 2003

VIRTUTI MEDICINALI 2003

| website = https://www.drjbrown.org/

}}

Jason W. Brown, MD (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 21 books, edited 4 others, and more than 200 articles.{{cn|date=February 2025}}{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Jason W. |title=Articles |url=https://www.drjbrown.org/articles |website=Dr. Jason W. Brown}}

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.{{cn|date=February 2025}}{{Cite web |title=Centerforcognition |url=https://www.centerforcognition.org/ |website=Center for Cognition and Communication. Comprehensive Neuropsychological care}}

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.{{cn|date=February 2025}}

He returned to Los Angeles for a residency in neurology at UCLA. 1967–1969 in the Army, in Korea and San Francisco.{{Cite web |title=SF.gov |url=https://www.sf.gov/ |access-date=2025-02-16 |website=www.sf.gov}} 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.{{cn|date=February 2025}}{{Cite book |last=Brown |first=Jason W. |title=Aphasia, apraxia, and agnosia;: Clinical and theoretical aspects |date=January 1, 1972 |publisher=Charles C. Thomas Publisher, Springfield, Illinois |year=1972 |isbn=0398022119 |location=Illinois |language=en}} 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.{{cn|date=February 2025}}{{Cite web |last=Rockefeller |first=University |title=The Rockefeller University. Science for the Benefit of Humanity |url=https://www.rockefeller.edu/ |website=The 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.{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.centerforcognition.org/ |access-date=2025-02-16 |website=Center For Cognition and Communication |language=en-US}}

Since 2002, Dr. Brown and his wife Carine house and co-organize the Psychology Nexus workshops on South of France.{{Cite web |title=Google Search |url=https://www.google.com/search?q=%D0%9F%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%96%D1%8F,+%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%96%D1%8F:+%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0 |access-date=2025-02-16 |website=www.google.com}}

Books

  • [https://books.google.com.ua/books/about/Aphasia.html?id=Ei0yvgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y Brown, J. W. (1972). Aphasia, apraxia and agnosia. Clinical and theoretical aspects Springfield, IL: Thomas].
  • [https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Brain-Consciousness-neurolinguistics-psycholinguistics/dp/0121375501 Brown, J. W. (1977). Mind, brain and consciousness. New York: Academic.]
  • [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9780203762882/life-mind-jason-brown 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.
  • [https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Nature-Essays-Time-Subjectivity/dp/1861561482 Brown, J. W. (2000). Mind and nature: essays on time and subjectivity. London: Whurr.]
  • [https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/jason-brown-library/79/ Brown, J. W. (2001). The Self-Embodied Mind: Process, Brain Dynamics, and the Conscious Present. Barrytown: Station Hill Press].
  • [https://actaneuropsychologica.com/article/10656/en Brown, J. W. (2005). Process and the authentic life. Toward a psychology of value. Heusenstamm: Ontos Verlag, De Gruyter.]
  • [https://www.academia.edu/3773997/Jason_W_Brown_Neuropsychological_Foundations_of_Conscious_Experience_2010 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.
  • [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429476891/love-emotions-jason-brown Brown, J. W. (2012). Love and other emotions. London: Karnac Press].
  • [https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/jason-brown-library/73/ Brown, J. W. (2015). Microgenetic theory and process thought. Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic]
  • [https://www.amazon.com/Metapsychology-Creative-Process-Continuous-Novelty/dp/184540923X Brown, J. W. (2017). Metapsychology of the creative process. Continuous novelty as the ground of creative advance. Exeter: Imprint Academic.]
  • [https://www.amazon.com/Reflections-Image-Reality-Jason-Brown-ebook/dp/B071JTFKVV Brown, J. W. (2017). Reflections on mind and the image of reality. Eugene, Oregon: Resource Publications.]
  • [https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/9783495993040/ausgewaehlte-aufsaetze-zu-einer-prozesspsychologie 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
  • [https://www.routledge.com/The-Microgenetic-Theory-of-Mind-and-Brain-Selected-Essays-in-Process-Psychology/Zhadiaiev-Brown-Stenner/p/book/9781032873848 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|978-1-032-87384-8}}, 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.
  • [https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=biOEDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=uk#v=onepage&q&f=false Brown, J. W. (1989). Neuropsychology of perception. New Jersey: Erlbaum.]

Articles

  • [https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Microgenesis-and-the-Mind-Brain-State-Interviews-Brown-Bradford/6e369fe3d80b031940ef8717e7ee89e884ed9c06 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.]
  • [https://www.jstor.org/stable/43854385 Brown, J.W. (2014). Feeling, Journal of mind and behavior,Vol. 35, No. 1/2 (Winter and Spring 2014), pp. 1-20 (20 pages)]
  • [https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-54742-003 Brown, J.W. (2017). Microgenetic theory of perception, memory and the mental state. Journal of consciousness studies, 24:51-70.]
  • [https://i6doc.com/en/book/?gcoi=28001100840010 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.
  • [https://www.pdcnet.org/process/content/process_2018_0047_0001_0163_0171 Brown, J.W. (2018). Theoretical note on the nature of the present. Process studies, 47.1-2 (2018): 163-171.]
  • [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331479652_Agency_and_the_will Brown, J.W. (2018). Agency and the will. Mind and matter, 16:195-212.]
  • [https://jmb-online.com/vol/vol-41-numbers-3-and-4-summer-and-autumn-2020.php 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}}
  • [https://www.academia.edu/49322530/The_Mind_Brain_State Brown, J.W. (2021) The mind/brain state. The Journal of mind and behavior 42(1), 1-16.]
  • [https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ps/article-abstract/51/2/204/319410/From-Drive-to-Value 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.]
  • [https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Consciousness-Non-Locality-Come-Carpentier/dp/9391759947 Brown, J.W. (2023). Agency and freedom. Exploring consciousness - from non-duality to non-locality. Proceedings of conference on Consciousness. Bangalore, India, (2022)]

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