User:Mark Germine, M.D.
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Mark Germine was born Mark Germinario on December 18, 1954, to Gladys and Morris Germinario, in Jersey City, New Jersey. In 1964 his name was changed to Mark Germine to avoid the discrimination then prevalent against Italian-Americans at that time. He entered Rutger University in Newark New Jersey at age 16 under the High School Scholars Program. He received Bachelors and Masters degrees in Geology in 1975 and 1981, and did his Masters Thesis on naturaly occurring asbestos in the Northern New Jersey area.
He has had many publications in geology, and is best known in geology for his publication of "Asbestos in Play Sand" in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1986 (14). He worked for the New Jersey Geological Survey from 1979 to 1984, where he was involved in research into naturally occurring asbestos and was co-author of the USGS map on the Tranquility Quadrangle in New Jersey. He became and remains one of the world's foremost experts on naturally occuring asbestos. Among his accomplishments in asbestos research was the discovery of an amorphous oxidation product on the surfaces on amphibole asbestos fibers using high resolution transmission electron microscopy, which he linked to the carcinogenesis of amphibole asbestos.
Dr. Germine entered New Jersey Medical School in 1984 and graduated with an MD in 1988. He completed his residency at Yale University School of Medicine in 1992, where he received National Institute of Mental Health research award and did research on the serotonin system in anxiety disorders. He has worked as a clinical psychiatrist, neuropsychiatrist, and neuroscience researcher since that time. In 1995 he was awarded the American Psychiatric Foundation Annual FJ McGuigan Award for the Understanding of the Human Mind, based on his application of Information Theory to the human mind (6).
Dr. Germines research and publications have ranged widely, including asbestos research (13-15), neuroimaging (7,9), psychopharmacology (3-5,8), consciousness theory (1,11), psychodynamic theory (2,6,10), and bone minerology (12). He co-edited the book Mind in Time (2004, Hampton Press) with Allan Combs and Ben Goertzel, and is co-editor of the e-journal, Dynamical Psychiatry. His interest in consciousness research led him to develop the One Mind Model of quantum reality, which holds that, although there is a multiverse of potential universes, there is a single actual Universe created by the One Mind through observation of our apparently separate mind. He published EEG data to back this proposal (1). He is currently working on papers applying the Holographic Principle in physics to the function of the mind (Wikipedia, Holographic Principle Theory of Mind), which holds that surfaces ranging from the most elementary fields through a nested hierarchy of intercellular surfaces, neuronal surfaces, brain module surfaces, brain area surfaces, and whole brain surfaces process and store information. Further surfaces occur on the planetary and Universal levels. He is also currently working on a book, The Science of God.
Selected Publications (Medline only)
1: Germine M. Virtual brain states and non-locality of the ERP. Med Hypotheses. 2004;62(4):629-34. 2: Germine M. The concept of energy in Freud's Project for a scientific psychology. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1998 May 15;843:80-90. 3: Goddard AW, Narayan M, Woods SW, Germine M, Kramer GL, Davis LL, Petty F. Plasma levels of gamma-aminobutyric acid and panic disorder. Psychiatry Res. 1996 Jul 31;63(2-3):223-5. 4: Goddard AW, Charney DS, Germine M, Woods SW, Heninger GR, Krystal JH, Goodman WK, Price LH Effects of tryptophan depletion on responses to yohimbine in healthy human subjects. Biol Psychiatry. 1995 Jul 15;38(2):74-85. 5: Germine M, Goddard AW, Sholomskas DE, Woods SW, Charney DS, Heninger GR. Response to meta-chlorophenylpiperazine in panic disorder patients and healthy subjects: influence of reduction in intravenous dosage. Psychiatry Res. 1994 Nov;54(2):115-33. 6: Germine M. Information and psychopathology. J Nerv Ment Dis. 1993 Jun;181(6):382-7. 7: Seibyl JP, Woods SW, Zoghbi SS, Baldwin RM, Dey HM, Goddard AW, Zea-Ponce Y, Zubal G, Germine M, Smith EO, et al. Dynamic SPECT imaging of dopamine D2 receptors in human subjects with iodine-123-IBZM. J Nucl Med. 1992 Nov;33(11):1964-71. 8: Germine M, Goddard AW, Woods SW, Charney DS, Heninger GR. Anger and anxiety responses to m-chlorophenylpiperazine in generalized anxiety disorder. Biol Psychiatry. 1992 Sep 1;32(5):457-61. 9: Woods SW, Seibyl JP, Goddard AW, Dey HM, Zoghbi SS, Germine M, Baldwin RM, Smith EO, Charney DS, Heninger GR, et al. Dynamic SPECT imaging after injection of the benzodiazepine receptor ligand [123I]iomazenil in healthy human subjects. Psychiatry Res. 1992 Aug;45(2):67-77. 10: Germine M. The mood-elevating effects of sleep deprivation in depression. JAMA. 1992 May 20;267(19):2604-5. 11: Germine M. Consciousness and synchronicity. Med Hypotheses. 1991 Nov;36(3):277-83. Review. 12: Germine M, Parsons JR. Deconvoluted X-ray diffraction analysis of bone and mixtures of bone and particulate hydroxyapatite. J Biomed Mater Res. 1988 Apr;22(A1 Suppl):55-67. 13: Germine M. Sepiolite asbestos from Franklin, New Jersey: a case study in medical geology. Environ Res. 1987 Apr;42(2):386-99. 14: Germine M. Asbestos in play sand. N Engl J Med. 1986 Oct 2;315(14):891. 15: Puffer JH, Germine M, Hurtubise DO, Mrotek KA, Bello DM. Asbestos distribution in the Central Serpentine District of Maryland-Pennsylvania. Environ Res. 1980 Dec;23(2):233-46.
