Curriculum Vitae for Bruce Eldine Morton, Ph.D.

 

Last update:  March, 2009

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WORK ADDRESS:

 

Bruce Eldine Morton, Ph.D.

10914  NW 33rd St, #115 GUA-70561

Doral, Florida 33172

 

Work Telephone (Guatemala City): 502 5632-3667

E-mail: bemorton@hawaii.edu

 

 

PERSONAL

 

Date and Place of Birth:        May 9, 1938, Loma Linda, CA, USA.

 

Marital Status:                       Divorce #1, Grown Daughter and Son

                                                Divorce #2, Younger Son

                                                Remarried, living in Guatemala

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

My long-term goals include clarification of the functional and hierarchal relationships of the brain neurotransmitter and anatomical systems producing consciousness, emotions, and psychosocial development.  This encompasses topics ranging from the mode of action of psychoactive drugs to the molecular bases of the emotional illnesses.  Overarching this is an interest in the critical stages of brain psychosocial development, developmental arrests and trauma repair.

 

Current work centers on the development of biophysical measures for human brain laterality.  I have identified five of these, and each significantly correlates with the other.  I have devised two new hemisphericity questionnaires that correlate highly with the five biophysical measures.  This has enabled me to not only measure the hemisphericity (right or left brain-orientation) of individuals, but also that of large groups.  For example, entering college freshmen were used as a reference group.  This group contained the four human subgroups in nearly equal size (right and left brain-oriented males and females).  It was observed that a significant selection of hemisphericity occurs as part of the education process and on into the professions.  Thus, astronomers, were found to be predominantly right brain-oriented while in the same University of Hawaii academic department (Physics and Astronomy), particle physicists were mainly left brain-oriented.  I presently am reconstituting hemisphericity, using these biophysical methods, questionnaires, and already known brain asymmetries.  Hopefully this can be done in a manner that will be a benchmark for future research in this area.

 

Many more manuscripts have been formulated written which go beyond hemisphericity to the “Polarity” of the human genetic stock.  Familial Polarity is a concept based the two unrecognized, opposite reproductive strategies used by primates, either “Patripolar” or “Matripolar”.  I use related information to physically prove the continued existence of Neanderthals and/or other patripolar stock among humanity, and to show that recurrent sites of global violence, including those leading to genocide, repeatedly occur at interfaces between immiscible human populations of biologically opposed polarity.  And there is much more.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

 

1995-present       EMERITUS PROFESSOR, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

                             John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii.

 

1985-1995:         PROFESSOR, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

                             John A. Burns    School of Medicine, University of Hawaii.

 

1985-1986:         VISITING SCIENTIST, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience

                             University of Michigan (with John. B. Penney, Anne. B. Young)

 

1985-1986:         VISITING SCHOLAR, Department of Psychology

                             Stanford University (with Robert F. Thompson)

 

1974-1985:         ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics,

                             John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii.

 

1974-1975:         VISITING SCIENTIST, Department of Biochemistry

                             University of Southern California (with Michael M. Appleman)

 

1969-1974:         ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics,

                             John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii.

 

1970-1971:         CLINICAL CHEMIST, St. Francis Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii

 

1967-1969:         CLINICAL CHEMIST, New England Memorial Hospital, Stoneham, MA

 

 

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING

 

1967-1969:        HARVARD UNIVERSITY: Research Fellow in Medicine with Howard H.

                             Hiatt, M.D., Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

 

1966-1967:        MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: National Institutes

                             of Health Postdoctoral Fellow with Alexander Rich, M.D., Div. of Biology.

 

1965-1966:       UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: Institute for Enzyme Research Postdoctoral

                            Fellow with Henry Lardy, Ph.D., Chairman.

 

 

FORMAL EDUCATION

 

Ph.D. (1965):      UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, Department of Biochemistry

                             Henry A. Lardy, Ph.D., Doctoral studies advisor.

 

M.S. (1963):        UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, Department of Biochemistry

                             Henry A. Lardy, Ph.D., Masters studies advisor.

 

B.A. (1960):         LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY, Riverside, CA, Department of Chemistry

                             W.D. Leech, Ph.D., Bachelors studies advisor.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY AFFILIATIONS

 

1988           American Society of Neurochemistry

 

1986           International Brain Research Organization

 

1981           International Society for Research on Aggression

 

1980           Society for Neuroscience

 

1975           American Society of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Biology

 

1971           Society for the Study of Reproduction 

 

1968           American Association for the Advancement of Science



RELATED SOCIETY AFFILIATIONS

 

1990            Society for Neurorealism (Founder)  (see Society for Neurorealism)

 

1989           Hawaii Neuroscience Group

 

1984           Oahu Alliance for the Mentally Ill

 

 

ENTRY INTO BRAIN RESEARCH

 

My early research was in the areas of molecular biology and reproductive biochemistry.  Because I had been trained in these areas under well-known scientists at prestigious institutions, my own later research at the University of Hawaii was well funded and had reached international prominence (See:  Research:  Publications)].  However, partly due to the discovery that my older son had bipolar affective illness, in 1978 I redirected my research emphasis toward neuro-biochemistry.  Investigations in my laboratory have since been conducted over a wide range of Neuroscience topics.  A number of discoveries have resulted  (See:  Neuroscience Research).

 

Unfortunately, this laudable mid-career shift in research areas automatically precluded me from further federal funding and caused great difficulty in the publication of my later work.  This was because in my new areas of research I became an “unknown” with no track record and no network of allies.  With so many known winners competing in each subspecialty area, why go with an unknown?  This makes multidisciplinary research difficult but not impossible.

 

 

Areas of where I have made contributions in Neurochemistry:

 

  1.  The mechanism of action of the behavioral peptide, Scotophobin

 

  2.  The mechanism of action of the Hawaiian spear poison, Palytoxin

 

3.     Mechanism studies on Marijuana (Cannabis), including its relationship to anxiety and

memory retrieval.

 

4.     Mechanism studies on LSD and other indolamine Hallucinogens, and their relationship to

     stress and illness.

 

  5.  The invention of an inexpensive high-resolution, two-dimensional densitometer for the

         quantitation of brain Autoradiographs.   (See:  Inventions)

 

6.      The application of deoxyglucose brain activity mapping methodology to emotion

     -associated behavior in rodents.

 

7.     The mapping of the distribution and density of several neurotransmitter receptor

       subclasses associated with emotionality and stress in the human brain. 

 

8.     The development of a serotonin assay sensitive enough to detect changes in human

salivary serotonin levels associated with physical pain (aerobics, hot tub, stretching), psychic pain (stress, upset), and to blood shunting changes after eating.

 

 9.  Stroke aftermath minimization.

 

 

Areas where I have made contributions in Neuropsychology:

 

1.      Realization that the purpose of all living behavior is to maintain optimal cellular survival

      conditions (homeostasis).

 

2.      Evidence that a foundational element of the brain alarm system is the locus coeruleus,

      part of the limbic system.

 

  3.  Evidence that arousal can be driven by either reward from the nucleus accumbens, or

       by alarm from the locus coeruleus.

 

4.     Development of the Hexadyad Primary Emotions Model representing limbic system and brain-core pain and pleasure motivators.

 

5.     Determination that the mind is best modeled as the product of the multiple activities of  the Dual Quadbrain. 

 

6.     Realization that PSYCHOSOCIAL critical periods of brain development exist and are often permanently arrested in childhood.

 

7.     Recognition that a developmental arrest repair program (DARP) exists, but it appears to have become defective, thus becoming a major source of inappropriate behavior.

 

8.     Realization that eye movement psychotherapies and other age-regression therapies are based upon the existence of the DARP.

 

9.     Discovery that two opposite reproductive strategies exist within the primates.  Humans have one or the other.  This is Familial Polarity.  (See: The Discovery of Familial Polarity)

 

10.       Human Polarity manifests itself as Hemisity.  Hemisity can now be quantified in

       individuals.  (See:  The Reconstitution of Hemisphericity as Hemisity)

 

11.       Evidence that factors controlling the strength of the Executive Ego are key elements in

   antisocial behavior.

 

 

Topics where I have made contributions in Neurophilosophy:

 

1.     The Seven-fold Nature of Reality

 

2.     The Structure of the Universe: Endless Levels of Unique Content and Behavior

 

3.     The Origin and Nature of Emergent Properties

 

4.     The Galactic Singularity Engine:  Origin of Life

 

5.     Cellular Homeostasis as the Source of All Behavior

 

6.     Triadism:  Solution of the Mind-Body Problem

 

7.     Origin and Nature of Consciousness: The Quadrimental Brain

 

8.     The Four Primary Thought Processes of Discovery

 

9.     Taking Control of the Ageing and Death Program

 

 

 

Contributions in the Area of Neuroreligion:

 

1.     Neurorealism: A transformational context for existence bridging brain and mind, science

and religion.