Dr. Brown was a participant in Closer to Truth: 

Show 103, "Can Science Seek the Soul?"

Dr. Warren Brown

Warren Brown is professor of psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary, where he is director of the Travis Research Institute and the Neuropsychology Laboratory. Brown's research in neuropsychology currently involves the study of cognitive and psychosocial disabilities in agenesis of the corpus callosum, a congenital brain abnormality. He has also studied brain function in dyslexia, ADHD, multiple sclerosis, and Alzheimer's disease; neuropsychological changes in aging and dementia; brain processes in language comprehension; brain wave changes associated with kidney disease and its treatment; and attentional deficits in schizophrenia. He has authored or co-authored over 70 scholarly articles in such peer-reviewed scientific journals as Neuropsychologia, Psychophysiology, Neurobiology of Aging, Biological Psychiatry, Developmental Neuropsychology, Cortex, and Science; and over 100 presentations at scientific meetings. Brown was the recipient of a prestigious National Institute of Mental Health Research Career Development Award, and a National Science Foundation Exchange of Scientists and Engineers Grant, as well as NIMH, NICHD, and U.S. Public Health Service research contracts and grant.

As a contribution to the integration of neurobiology and theology, Brown recently wrote and edited Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature (Fortress Press, 1998). This work presents a cross-disciplinary (biology and genetics to theology and ethics) portrait of the nature of persons, and denies an independent, dualistic nature to the soul. Whatever Happened to the Soul? is considered a significant contribution to contemporary Christian thought, winning the 1999 Templeton Prize for Best Books in Religion and Science. Nancey Murphy and Francisco Ayala (other participants in Closer to Truth) also contributed to this work.