Jay ("Jason") Seitz
Neuropsychologist | entrepreneur | arts supporter | fitness enthusiast (NASM-CPT certified in fitness training, National Academy of Sports Medicine and ISSA-CPT certified personal trainer specialist, ISSA-CPT, International Sports Sciences Association) | BLS/CPR Certification Adult/Pediatric CPR/AED/First Aid, 2025-2027 (American Red Cross) | Certified Good Clinical Practice (NADT Clinical Trials Network) | QM Certificate (on-line teaching; I was one of the first instructors to teach online in the US through the DIAL Program, New School for Social Research/featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct., 2000) | and canine and nature aficionado (hiking, mountain/trail biking, and off-roading).
Author of the 2023-2025 book, “Retracing the Steps of Human Ontogeny: Exploring Development from the End to the Beginning.” Pressbooks: Open Educational Resources (OER). Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. [Lifespan human development].
Author of the 2019 book, "Mind Embodied: The Evolutionary Origins of Complex Cognitive Abilities in Modern Humans." Available from Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes and Noble, Books-a-Million, Bookshop, IndieBound, and the publisher (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers). [Evolutionary cognitive neuroscience].
CEO & President, Neurocognitive Therapeutics, LLC is a healthcare startup specializing in helping everyday consumers leverage developments in phytonutrients to enhance cognition and higher-order cognitive abilities for brain fitness, healthy aging/immune enhancement, women’s wellness and performance, men’s athletic fitness, as well as general well-being of body and mind.
Editorial reviewer: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, Minds and Machines, and Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (APA journal).
Previously, I treated individuals with central nervous system disorders including problems with attention and concentration (e.g., ADHD), memory impairment, cognitive processing and language disorders, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (OCD), autistic spectrum disorders (ASD), intellective and learning disorders, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-concussion syndrome, multiple sclerosis (MS), epilepsy and seizure disorders, dementia and cognitive impairment (e.g., Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, Lewy Body dementia/LBD), frontal lobe disorders and executive control dysfunctions, genetic and chromosomal syndromes (e.g., Fragile-X, Down's Syndrome), CNS infections, and exposure to environmental toxins in utero.
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Supervisors: Drs. Elkhonon Goldberg and Joan Borod (neuropsychology), Howard Gardner (post-doc advisor, Harvard); Dissertation committee: Drs. Harry Beilin (chair), Nathan Kogan (outside reader), Sylvia Scribner, Katherine Nelson, and and David Rindskopf (research design and statistical analysis); Dr. Harry Frankel (post-baccalaureate advisor; respiratory physiology at Rutgers); Dr. Peter Hoppe (advisor; NSF summer research program; reproductive physiology; The Jackson Laboratory).
Phone: +1 (339) 707-0528
Address: Business address: New Orleans, LA
Author of the 2023-2025 book, “Retracing the Steps of Human Ontogeny: Exploring Development from the End to the Beginning.” Pressbooks: Open Educational Resources (OER). Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. [Lifespan human development].
Author of the 2019 book, "Mind Embodied: The Evolutionary Origins of Complex Cognitive Abilities in Modern Humans." Available from Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes and Noble, Books-a-Million, Bookshop, IndieBound, and the publisher (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers). [Evolutionary cognitive neuroscience].
CEO & President, Neurocognitive Therapeutics, LLC is a healthcare startup specializing in helping everyday consumers leverage developments in phytonutrients to enhance cognition and higher-order cognitive abilities for brain fitness, healthy aging/immune enhancement, women’s wellness and performance, men’s athletic fitness, as well as general well-being of body and mind.
Editorial reviewer: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, Minds and Machines, and Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (APA journal).
Previously, I treated individuals with central nervous system disorders including problems with attention and concentration (e.g., ADHD), memory impairment, cognitive processing and language disorders, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (OCD), autistic spectrum disorders (ASD), intellective and learning disorders, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-concussion syndrome, multiple sclerosis (MS), epilepsy and seizure disorders, dementia and cognitive impairment (e.g., Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, Lewy Body dementia/LBD), frontal lobe disorders and executive control dysfunctions, genetic and chromosomal syndromes (e.g., Fragile-X, Down's Syndrome), CNS infections, and exposure to environmental toxins in utero.
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Supervisors: Drs. Elkhonon Goldberg and Joan Borod (neuropsychology), Howard Gardner (post-doc advisor, Harvard); Dissertation committee: Drs. Harry Beilin (chair), Nathan Kogan (outside reader), Sylvia Scribner, Katherine Nelson, and and David Rindskopf (research design and statistical analysis); Dr. Harry Frankel (post-baccalaureate advisor; respiratory physiology at Rutgers); Dr. Peter Hoppe (advisor; NSF summer research program; reproductive physiology; The Jackson Laboratory).
Phone: +1 (339) 707-0528
Address: Business address: New Orleans, LA
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Working from the end of life to the beginning. No doubt, a novel approach.
It’s like reading the end of a novel first–“100 Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez (Nobel Prize, 1982), which traces 7 generations of a South American family–to understand the final outcome in the present day by re-tracing the steps that led to the amazing dénouement at the end of the novel.
And there is a major organizing concept that drives all human growth and development that will inform the backbone of our story. It’s called “neoteny” or the retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult and a major feature of human evolution. That is, the slowing down of brain and bodily development through infancy, childhood, and adolescence, results in the heightened cognitive, affective, and creative abilities of human adults. And those capabilities are found nowhere else in the animal kingdom although there are glimpses of many of those abilities in other species.
So our “story” starts out at the end so as to explain how these astonishing abilities in human adults (e.g., language, thought, visuospatial abilities, concept formation, theory of mind, emotional intelligence, sociality, artistic abilities, and athletic prowess) developed and evolved from a tiny zygote.
PARTIAL SUMMARY: Propaganda in wartime is ubiquitous in all societies but most likely originated in the writings of military tacticians in China in the fifth century B.C.E. or earlier. Power, as Napoleon once opined, is a based on opinion, and governments in wartime “manufacture consent” among the various publics by justifying and then carrying out their own intended actions. Propaganda has been most effective in democratic regimes in which tolerance of, and respect for, different opinions and ways of life is considered the foundation of democratic behavior. Propaganda eviscerates democracy because its, often unstated, goal is to provoke active or passive participation without democratic deliberation, the political core of free societies. Propaganda accomplishes its goals through several means. It may create a political climate favorable for attitude change (pre-persuasion or pre-propaganda), modify opinions directly through the use of the print and non-print media (political propaganda) or it may accomplish its aims furtively by disguising its true goals or in such a way that the democratic public is aware that it is being propagandized (overt or white propaganda) only to further a more covert intention (covert or black propaganda). Historically, propaganda in wartime has typically descended from the upper echelons of government (vertical propaganda) but it may just as equally arise from below in the internal dynamics of an organized group or institution (political education; horizontal propaganda).
Exactly how the reader goes about inferring the similarity remains something of a mystery; when pressed for an explanation, the reader invokes the usual circularity--he or she fits a schema to an input and comes up with a match. Given the range of experience implicated in the production and comprehension of metaphor--perception, cross-modal association, and emotional expression, to name a few, one could argue that the ability to perceive similarity is a more generalized facility not limited to language, it is a supramodular capacity. That is to say, the brain's capacity to process metaphorical relations may rely on central cognitive mechanisms that relate percepts or concepts across different cognitive domains as well as interrelationships among brain areas.