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Stephen J. Gislason MD
Stephen wears several hats. You can find him every morning, reviewing the scientific literature and updating his articles and books. Every evening you can find him in the music studio, composing, arranging, recording and writing about music. His first interest was brain science which he pursued since he was a medical student. Dr. Gislason graduated from the University of Toronto Medical School in 1967 and practiced medicine in British Columbia from1971 to 1995. He has been the President and CEO of Environmed Research Inc since 1984 and, since 1995, he has managed the company full time.
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An illness interrupted his coastal life in 1982, sending him on another journey to resolve and understand his own experience and to apply his insights to helping other sick people. The results of this medical journey are found in the Alpha Education series of books written over the past 25 years. In 2000, he resumed his study of neuroscience topics and began assembling notes from over 30 years of study and contemplation to write books in the Philosophy and Neuroscience Series. The book, the Human Brain acts as a bridge between the practical and medical emphasis in the Alpha Education Series and the Persona Psychology Series.
Philosophy, Psychology & Neuroscience Series
Stephen had an early start in the study of philosophy and neuroscience. At age 16, he decided his main life task would be to pursue understanding the human mind. His medical career veered toward general practice in rural areas, because he wanted to live outside urban environments and loved the natural world of British Columbia. He attributes much of his education to living in close relationship with the pacific ocean, with wind, waves, plankton, fish, sea mammals and ocean birds." They taught me about life, minds, communication, networks and the interconnections of all living things." See Stephen's Blog
Music at the Persona Digital Studios
Stephen is the principle composer, arranger and producer at Persona Digital Studios. He created the P2500 Band, Em4U and the Persona Classical Consort. Since the early 1970s, Stephen has been involved with electronic music, synthesizers and the study of psychoacoustics. He started playing the piano at age 5 and in high school became involved in bands and popular music as a trumpet player. He continues to play keyboards and plays the trumpet and flugelhorn on the keyboard in many of his arrangements. The Persona Digital studio was rebuilt in 2006. Stephen now produces a steady stream of recordings and wrote The Sound of Music, about the nature of sound and music, with discussions of composing, recording, studio hardware and software, the music business and recordings of that Stephen has created at the Persona Digital Studio.
Dr. Gislason's Philosophy, Psychology & Neuroscience SeriesDr. Gislason had an early start in the study of philosophy and neuroscience. At age 16, he decided his main life task would be to pursue understanding the human mind. In the intervening years, he studied neuroanatomy, neurotransmitters, electronics, computer science, neuropsychology and at the same time he studied Buddhist philosophy and practiced a variety of meditation techniques. His medical career veered toward general practice in rural areas, because he wanted to live outside urban environments and loved the natural world of British Columbia. He attributes much of his education to living in close relationship with the pacific ocean, with wind, waves, plankton, fish, sea mammals and ocean birds." They taught me about life, minds, communication, networks and the interconnections of all living things." In 2000, he resumed his study of neuroscience topics and began assembling notes from over 30 years of study and contemplation to write books in the Philosophy, Psychology and Neuroscience Series. The Book of Brain acts as a bridge between the practical and medical emphasis in the Health Education Series and the Philosophy Series. The first book in the Philosophy Series, Existence and the Human Mind (2005) is an introduction to the essential topics that link Philosophy and Neuroscience. A new catalogue of books is ready for 2009 distribution. In his preface to the first book, Existence and the Human Mind, Dr. Gislason stated: "As a physician- philosopher, I have many vantage points. I allow my vantage point to shift from a detached observer viewing planet earth from the safety of distant space to an intimate and personal discussion of what life is like for me on a daily basis. Often, I am describing a physician’s point of view since I have spent more than 40 years serving in that role. Sometimes I am a visiting anthropologist making notes in a neighborhood café. At other times, I am concerned about the confusions and misunderstandings so common among my family, friends and patients. At other times I am a paleontologist or evolutionary psychologist imagining what life was like on planet earth 100 million years ago or what humans were like 50,000 years ago. Sometimes I am free spirit, a mystic, wandering this planet alone without profession or social status, an animal among animals, in love with nature and the primal feel of existence." |
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