Jeffrey M. Schwartz

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Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D. is a well known American scientist in the field of neuroplasticity, and its application to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

After receiving a bachelors with honors in philosophy, he changed career directions to the medical sciences. Currently associate research professor of psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine, he is also a fellow with the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design.

Schwartz is a seminal thinker and researcher in the field of self-directed neuroplasticity. He is the author of almost 100 scientific publications in the fields of neuroscience and psychiatry, and several popular books. His major research interest over the past two decades has been brain imaging/functional neuroanatomy and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), with a focus on the pathological mechanisms and psychological treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

For his book The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force, Schwartz received collaboration from LBL physicist Henry Stapp (who is himself unaffiliated with the ICSID).

[edit] Books

Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley, The mind and the brain: Neuroplasticity and the power of mental force, New York: Regan Books, 2002. ISBN 0-06039-355-6.

Jeffrey Schwartz and Beverly Beyette, Brain lock: Free yourself from obsessive-compulsive behavior: A four-step self-treatment method to change your brain chemistry, New York: Regan Books, 1997. ISBN 0-06098-711-1.

[edit] Articles on consciousness and quantum mechanics

Schwartz, J. M., Stapp, H. P., and Beauregard, M. (2005). Quantum theory in neuroscience and psychology: A neurophysical model of mind-brain interaction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 360(1458):1309-27. Full paper

Schwartz, J. M., Stapp, H. P., and Beauregard, M. (2004). The volitional influence of the mind on the brain, with special reference to emotional self-regulation, in Beauregard, M. (Ed.), Consciousness, emotional self-regulation, and the brain, Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing Company, chapter 7. ISBN 9-02725187-8.

Schwartz, J. M., Gulliford, E. Z., Stier, J., and Thienemann, M. (2005). Mindful Awareness and Self-Directed Neuroplasticity: Integrating psychospiritual and biological approaches to mental health with a focus on obsessive compulsive disorder, in Mijares, S. G., and Khalsa, G. S. (Eds.), The Psychospiritual Clinician's Handbook: Alternative methods for understanding and treating mental disorders, Binghamton, NY: Haworth Reference Press, chapter 13. ISBN 0-78902324-5.