Overview
Juan M. Pascual is an experimental scientist and clinician. He has broad mentorship and collaborative expertise on several areas of inquiry conducted in various settings. Interests include explanation and causation in neural science with particular attention to atomism, and teleology from the perspective of the transmission of function across the biological scale. He is writing a book on conceptual confusions in neuroscience and their consequences. The approach is analytical rather than descriptive. His perspective is influenced by his friend Peter Hacker, who was a friend of Norman Malcolm (of Cornell Philosophy fame), who was a friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Research Focus
His experimental expertise ranges from cerebral metabolism, neurogenetics and neurophysiology to the quantitative analysis of behavior. Unusual, large scale projects have included the study of thousands of mice to discover mutants that exceed the limits of biological performance, laying the groundwork for the isolation of the brain from the rest of the body, or following metabolic activity as it crosses biological domains from neural circuits to persons to be leveraged as treatment for certain diseases. Other projects are accessible below:
Research profile
Recent clinical research studies
Recent NIH-funded research projects
Journal publications (PubMed)
Affiliations
Philosophy
Pediatrics
Neurology
Neuroscience