Donald Matthew Mender MD, FAPA

Lecturer in Psychiatry; Faculty Co-Sponsor, Yale Philosophy and Psychiatry Group

Biographical Info

My current academic appointments include affiliations as Professor of Psychiatry at L. U. de S. University and Lecturer in Psychiatry at Yale University.

I served as a moderator of the University of Arizona's on-line Quantum Mind symposium in the late 1990's. Over the past decade I have given talks on matters related to quantum neurodynamics at the University of Arizona's TSC and Quantum Mind conferences in Tucson, Flagstaff, Skovde, Copenhagen, and Salzburg. I have also lectured on similar topics with reference to psychiatric issues at Yale, NYU, and the Mayo Clinic.

My publications include a book presenting a gauge theory of intentionally "local" mind-brain symmetries. I have also published numerous papers, whose content has included spontaneous symmetry breaking in physical phase transitions of conscious states, Von Neumann-Wigner interpretations of non-computational wave function collapse, and anthropic aspects of non-unitary brain transformations.

I chaired the organizing committee of the initiative on Quantum Paradigms of Psychopathology, edited its first on line symposium in the March 2010 issue of the NeuroQuantology Journal, and two years later spoke at its first international meeting in Fano, Italy. I currently serve as a faculty co-sponsor of the Yale Philosophy and Psychiatry Group's monthly seminar series and as an editorial board member of the NeuroQuantology Journal.

Education & Training

B.A.

Williams College (1971)

M.D.

University of Pennsylvania (1975)

Resident

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Neurology (1976 - 1979)

Resident

Payne Whitney Clinic, Psychiatry (1985 - 1988)

EEG Fellow

Mayo Clinic, Neurology (1980 - 1981)

Honors & Recognition

• Nancy C. A. Roeske Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Medical Student Education
  American Psychiatric Association (2009)
• Fellow
  American Psychiatric Association (2009)