Background
Marcel Kinsbourne was born on November 3, 1931 in Vienna, Austria; the son of David and Matilda (Gaster) Kinsbrunner. He came to the United States in 1967.
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Marcel Kinsbourne
Marcel Kinsbourne is an Austrian-born pediatric neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist who was an early pioneer in the study of brain lateralization.
Education
Doctor Kinsbourne obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree (styled Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Oxfordshire) in 1955 and Doctorate.M. degree (a "higher doctorate" based on original research) at Oxford University in 1963.
Career
Marcel Kinsbourne is a Professor of Psychology at The New School in New York City and is affiliated with the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He served on the Psychology Faculty in Oxford University as of 1964 before relocating to the United States in 1967. He has held Professorships in both Neurology and Psychology at Duke University and the University of Toronto, and headed the Behavioral Neurology Research Division at the Shriver Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
He also served as Presidents of the International Neuropsychology Society and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Doctor Kinsbourne"s considerable body of research involves multiple areas of cognitive neuroscience, including brain-behavior relations.
Doctor Kinsbourne was the first to identify and systematically describe the infant disorder "opsoclonus myoclonus" syndrome, sometimes called Kinsbourne syndrome in his honor.
He also was first to describe "hiatus hernia" with contortions of the neck, subsequently called Sandifer Syndrome in honor of his mentor, Doctor Paul Sandifer. Doctor Kinsbourne"s latest publication was Somatic Twist: A Model for the Evolution of Decussation (2013). He has published over 400 articles, including: The Corpus Callosum as a Component of a Circuit for Selection, How the Senses Combine in the Brain, and Disorders of Mental Development.
Doctor Kinsbourne also published an article titled The Immune System’s Moderating Response to Inflammation Relieves Autistic Behavior: Response to Peter Good.
He noticed that each autistic movement is caused by pathologically heightened arousal. He concluded that autistic behaviors can be improved with a fever.
If this is true then a remedy for autism maybe a simple stimulation of the vagus nerve.
At the same time Dr Kinsbourne wrote two articles which were published in 1993, one being Unity and Diversity in the Human Brain: Evidence from Injury where he talks about cognitive neuropsychology, and the other article Awareness of Deficit After Brain Injury: Clinical and Theoretical Issues where he talks about the systematic review he performs for certain types of disorders. Unity and Diversity in the Human Brain: Evidence from Injury (1998).
Achievements
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Marcel Kinsbourne has been listed as a notable neurologist, behavioral neuroscientist by Marquis Who's Who.
Works
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Hemispheric Disconnection and Cerebral Function
(This book is written for psychologists, physioligists, ne...)
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Hemispheric Disconnection and Cerebral Function
Membership
Marcel Kinsbourne is a member of International Neuropsychology Association, American Neurological Association, Child Neurology Society and Society Philosophical Psychology.
Connections
Marcel Kinsbourne has four children - David, Daniel, Jeremy and Emily.
