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Spouse
  
Janet Brown

Name
  
Warren Brown


Born
  
September 8, 1944 (age 79) (
1944-09-08
)

Theses
  
Evoked Potential Correlates of Information Delivery and Uncertainty in Downs Syndrome and Normal Children (1968) Visual Evoked Potentials, Laterality of Eye Movements and the Asymmetry of Brain Functions (1971)

Education
  
University of Southern California

Books
  
Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will

Notable awards
  
§ Awards and honors

Warren S. Brown, PhD – Disorders of the Corpus Callosum: The Basics


Warren S. Brown (born September 8, 1944) is director of the Lee Edward Travis Research Institute at the Fuller Theological Seminary and Professor of Psychology in the Graduate School of Psychology. He has been a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute since 1982. Dr. Brown received his doctorate in Experimental Physiological Psychology from the University of Southern California (1971). Prior to Fuller, Brown spent 11 years as a research scientist at the UCLA Brain Research Institute and was a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion. Brown and his wife founded the annual "Warren and Janet Brown Scholarship" that supports students in neuropsychological research. He served on the editorial board of Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith.

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Neuropsychological research

Warren Brown is involved in experimental neuropsychological research related to functions of the corpus callosum of the brain and its relationship to higher cognitive processes in humans. In particular, he has been studying the implications of agenesis of the corpus callosum (i.e., congenital absence of the corpus callosum, the pathway that connects the right and left hemispheres). Brown has been interested in the implications of this disorder for mental abilities and social awareness. Over the last 15 years his lab has conducted the largest study accomplished thus far (both in number of subjects and depth of testing) on cognitive and social disabilities of individuals with agenesis of the corpus callosum. He has authored or coauthored over 75 scholarly articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals; 15 chapters in edited scholarly books; and over 120 presentations at scientific meetings.

Books

  • Warren Brown, Nancey Murphy and H. Newton Maloney (eds.) Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998. Won the "Outstanding Books in Theology and the Natural Sciences Prize", awarded by the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in 1999.
  • Warren Brown (ed.) Understanding Wisdom: Sources, Science, and Society. Radnor, Penn: Templeton Press, 2000.
  • Nancey Murphy and Warren Brown. Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? : Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will. Oxford, U.K., Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • Malcolm Jeeves and Warren Brown. Neuroscience, Psychology and Religion: Illusions, Delusions, and Realities about Human Nature. Radnor, Penn: Templeton Press, 2009.
  • Research articles

  • Brown, WS, Jeeves, MA, Dietrich, R., and Burnison, DS. (1999) Bilateral field advantage and evoked potential interhemispheric transmission in commissurotomy and callosal agenesis. Neuropsychologia, 37, 1154-1180.
  • Brown, W.S. and Paul L.K., (2000) Psychosocial deficits in agenesis of the corpus callosum with normal intelligence. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. 5, 135-157.
  • Brown, W.S., Paul, L.K., Symington, M., and Dietrich, R. (2005) Comprehension of Humor in Primary Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum. Neuropsychologia. 43:906-916.
  • Brown, W.S., Symington, M., VanLancker, D., Dietrich, R. and Paul, L.K. (2005) Paralinguistic processing in children with Callosal Agenesis: Emergence of neurolinguistic deficits. Brain and Language. 93, 135-139.
  • Awards and honors

    Awards
  • Phillip M. Rennick Award by the International Neuropsychological Society (1997)
  • Phillip M. Rennick Award by the International Neuropsychological Society (1995)
  • C. Davis Weyerhaeuser Teaching Excellence Award by The Stewardship Foundation (1992)
  • Point Loma Nazarene University Outstanding Alumnus Award (1988)
  • National Science Foundation U.S.-Industrialized Countries Exchange of Scientists and Engineers (1986)
  • Point Loma Nazarene University Outstanding Alumnus Award (1976)
  • Research Scientist Development Award, Type I by the NIMH (1975–1980)
  • Nominations
  • Nelson Butters Award finalist (2000)
  • Honors
  • Honorary fellow of Division 40 and Division 6 of the American Psychological Association
  • Listed in American Men and Women of Science
  • References

    Warren S. Brown Wikipedia