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Mr. John LaMuth

Private Practice
JLM Mediation
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Brief Biography:


John E. LaMuth is a 60 year-old counselor and author, native to the Southern California area. Credentials include a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biological Sciences from University of California, Irvine: followed by a Master of Science Degree in Counseling from California State University, Fullerton; with an emphasis in Marriage, Family, and ChildCounseling. Postgraduate career choices include social work with abused children, and as an educator in the field of psychology. John is currently engaged in private practice in Divorce and Family Mediation Counseling in the Southern CA area – JLM Mediation Service – Box 105 - Lucerne Valley, CA
92356.

 

Academic positions:


Adjunct Faculty Member, Victor Valley College, Victorville California USA

 

Research interests:


Announcing the introduction of the first "Periodic Table for the Human Forebrain,” which enjoys similar advantages to the dramatic influence that the Periodic Table of the Elements has enjoyed with respect to Chemistry and Physics. This respective neural counterpart imparts a crucial sense of systematic order and purpose to the fragmented state of affairs currently prevailing within the neurosciences. 
The cerebral cortex represents the most logical initiation point for such an innovation, celebrated as the crowning culmination of human forebrain evolution. This radical expansion of the neocortex is observed to occur in a discrete pattern suggestively termed cortical growth rings. The general pattern of neural evolution specifies that older structures are periodically modified to create newer functional areas, with the precursor circuitry also preserved, all persisting side by side. The stepwise repetition of these processes over the course of mammalian evolution ultimately accounts for the six sequential age levels of cortical evolution, in a representation that depicts the entire surface of the cortex folded flat so that the medial and sub-temporal surfaces are fully exposed.

Returning to the dual parameter grid, the two fundamental variables defining forebrain evolution are the parameters of phylogenetic age and input specificity. The precise number of elementary levels has accurately been deter¬mined for both basic forebrain parameters. Sanides (1972) proposed that the human cortex evolved as a sequence of five concentric growth rings comprising a medio-lateral hemisphere gradient. Furthermore, the interoceptive, exteroceptive and proprioceptive input categories each project to their own four-part complex of cortical bands that (when taken collectively) define an antero-posterior hemisphere gradient.

The evolutionary gradient extending from the archaecortex via the cingulate gyrus is essentially the top half of the dual parameter grid. Here, when the para-coronal variable of phylogenetic age is plotted as the ordinate and the para-sagittal parameter of input specificity charted as the abscissa in a Cartesian coordinate system, the resulting dual parameter grid depicted is spatially oriented in a pattern analogous to the standard cortical representation.

 The evolutionary gradient extending from the paleocortex via the insular lobe is the bottom half of the dual parameter grid. This version similarly shows that the human cortical parcellation schemes of Broadman (1909) and von Economo (1929) correlate topographically on essentially a one-to-one basis with the dual parameter grid.

Each cortical area described by Broadman and von Economo corresponds  to schematically unique age/input parameter coordinates. Furthermore, each affiliated thalamic nucleus of specific age and input coordinates projects principally to that cortical area comprising identical pair-coordi-nate values, implying that the evolution of both the dorsal thalamus and the cortex are similarly defined in terms of the specifics for the dual parameter grid. More details posted at forebrain.org

Publications
LaMuth, John. Character Values: Promoting a Virtuous
Lifestyle. Fairhaven Books: Lucerne Valley, March 2005  www.charactervalues.com  ISBN #: 1929649679 Note: perfect bound  472 pages

LaMuth, John. Communication Breakdown: Decoding the
Riddle of Mental Illness).  Fairhaven Books, June 2004  Note: perfect bound - 280 pages. www.angelfire.com/rnb/fairhaven/cbd.html

LaMuth, John. "The Development of the Forebrain as an Elementary Function of the Parameters of Input Specificity and Phylogenetic Age." J. U/grad Research in Bio. Sci. - U. C. Irvine. Volume 6. pp. 274-294. June 1, 1977.

Talks
Presentation of a paper at ISSS 2000 (International Society for Systems Sciences) Conference in Toronto, Canada on various aspects of the new science of Powerplay Politics.

· Toward
a Science of Consciousness: TUCSON April 8–12, 2002 Tucson Convention Center, Tucson, rizona-sponsored by the Center for Consciousness Studies-University of Arizona (poster presentation).
· John
presented a poster at the 8th International Tsukaba Bioethics Conference at Tsukaba, Japan on Feb. 15 to 17,  2003.
·  John
has presented his paper – “The Communicational Factors Underlying the
Mental Disorders” at the 2006 Annual Conf. of the Western Psychological Association at Palm Springs, CA

Honors
Honors Diploma for Research in Biological Sciences (June 1977) - Univ. of Calif.Irvine. John is a member of the APA and the American Philosophical Association.

US Patents Granted for Ethical Artificial Intelligence  # 6,587,846 & 7,236,963

 

Any other information:


http://www.charactervalues.com
http://www.world-peace.org
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/fairhaven/schematics.html
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/fairhaven/behaviorism.html
http://www.forebrain.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h82g06Knv44     World-peace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8kL3v539D4     Forebrain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPMUPt-E7BA     MI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alf5IB6iR2c     AI

 

What I think of the idea behind WebmedCentral:


I feel this is an excellent much-needed new service for academia and I look forward to contributing...

 

Home Page:


http://www.forebrain.org