Jason Walter Brown

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 21 books, edited 4 others, and more than 200 articles.

Brown is the founder and chief neurologist of the Center For Cognition and Communication (CCC).

Education

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.

Career 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 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 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 Philosophy Nexus workshops on South of France.

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. (2015). Microgenetic theory and process thought. Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic 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 (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.] , 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

Selected 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, Vol. 35, No. 1/2 (Winter and Spring 2014), pp. 1-20 (20 pages) Brown, J.W. (2017). Microgenetic theory of perception, memory and the mental state. Journal of consciousness studies, 24:51-70