Monthly Archives: April 2020

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American Academy of Neurology Board of Directors

In the current issue of AANnews (April 2020) there is a photograph of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Neurology. They are sitting and standing in front of my painting, Reciprocal Altruism […]

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psichopatija (psychopathy)

Sandra Avižienytė is one of the foremost Lithuanian poets. She has just published her latest book of poetry, psichopatija (psychopathy). I am honored that she illustrated her book with my artwork, Non-Isolation / Displacement. In […]

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Quantum Consciousness: Further Investigation

These are two subsequent musings about quantum consciousness where I am using oil paints to investigate this elusive concept. It was 50 years ago that I started to embark on my art career. At that […]

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Mirror Neurons and Quantum Consciousness

Mirror neurons were first discovered by Italian neurophysiologists in the 1980′s. In studying the movement controlling neurons, in the cerebral cortex of monkeys, they found neurons, which produced movement, also responded to the monkey seeing […]

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Hippocampal Memory and Quantum Consciousness

The installation, Hippocampal Memory, was 13 x 32 feet (over 400 square feet) in size and the cylindrical conduit along the ceiling was 80 feet long, for an additional 240 square feet of interacting neurons. […]

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Informatika and Quantum Consciousness

In this expansive installation at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City, Indiana, I used over 1,500 of my Thought Fragments. The theme related to information processing in our central nervous systems, and […]

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THOUGHT FRAGMENTS

Several years ago, as part of my Mindscapes exhibit at the Beverly Arts Center in Chicago, I created four, 8 x 9 foot, wall installations, that I called Thought Fragments. I took previously exhibited, large-scale […]

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Fragile-X syndrome and the Mayo Clinic

The images show the first fragile-X syndrome chromosome preparation done at the Mayo Clinic. The primary impetus for my leaving the study of particle physics in college, and going into neurobiology, was to try to […]

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Quantum Consciousness: First Investigation

With the New Year, I established an art studio in an expansive building built by my uncle, Vaclovas Gutauskas SJ. He raised all of the funds necessary to build and maintain the Lithuanian Center, the […]

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Microtubules, Consciousness and Down Syndrome

When I went to college at the University of Chicago, it was to study particle physics—to understand what the world is made of. During my second year, despite my protests, I had to take a […]

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