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ABBREVIATED CURRICULUM VITA DESCRIPTION OF VERNON NEPPE RELATING TO SOME COMMON FORENSIC WORK.

Professor Vernon M Neppe, MD, PhD (Med), FRSSAf, DFAPA, BN&NP


  • Other qualifications: FFPsych (SA), MMed (Psych), Dip PsychM ?Psychiatry And Neurology, MB, BCh, BA, Dipl Amer Board Psychiatry & Neurology ?Psychiatry (-2004), Amer. Board of Forensic Examiners ?DABFE, DABFM, DABPS (Psychopharmacology), FACFE, FAPA, FCPsych, MB, BCh, BA, FRCPC (-2011), LMACFE, FCPsych, MB, BCh, BA, DSPE, DPCP.
  • Director of the Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute, Seattle, WA.
  • Executive Director and Distinguished Creative Polymathic Professor, Exceptional Creative Achievement Organization; www.ecao.us
  • Formerly, Director, First Division of Neuropsychiatry in Department of Psychiatry in the USA (U. Washington)
  • Editor-in-chief, Journal of Psychology and Clinical Psychiatry (ISI listing) (JPCPY) http://medcraveonline.com/JPCPY/
  • Director, Human Performance Enhancement Division (HPED) of the World Institute of Scientific Exploration (WISE); http://instituteforscientificexploration.org/humanperformance-enhancement-division/
  • (Adjunct Full) Professor, Psychiatry& Behavioral Neuroscience, previously Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, St Louis University, MO
  • Editor, Dynamic International Journal of Exceptional Creative Achievement (Closed Journal) (DIJECA). www.ecao.us
  • Current affiliation, Overlake Hospital, Bellevue, WA

  • Recognitions include:

  • Dr Neppe is one of the few physicians listed in all 21 editions 2001-2021 acclaimed peer reviewed Castle Connolly book America?s Top Doctors. He has been listed under 5 subspecialties / specialties and might be the only physician ever to be so listed. His listings have been Psychiatry, Behavioral Neurology, Neuropsychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry, and Psychopharmacology
  • Dr Neppe received the prestigious worldwide interdisciplinary Whiting Memorial Prize for 2016 www.tddvp.com
  • Whiting Memorial Award (prestigious, rare worldwide, unanimous (2016) with Edward R. Close PhD Dimensional Biopsychophysics and Consciousness; Research www.tddvp.com
  • Leading Psychopharmacologists of Twentieth Century? (Autobiography CINP 2004).
  • Leader, First USA and International Delegation in Neuropsychiatry and Psychopharmacology; International Delegation in Neuropsychiatry and Psychopharmacology.
  • Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. 2019 (2019) https://wwlifetimeachievement.com/2019/10/28/vernon-neppe/
  • Immortality Science Award. Romania. 2020. First Academia Ars Moriendi international recognition
  • Gabino Barreda recognition award and medal Mexico. 2013.
  • Marius Valkhoff Medal, 1982: South Africa.
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, apparently the first physician living in the USA to be so honored.
  • Elected a Fellow and then a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
  • Diplomate, after Senior Research Fellow, ISPE thethousand.com 2009 on.
  • First director of a Division of Neuropsychiatry in a USA Medical School (University of Washington) (1986 to September 1992).

  1. Mo three major international awards for his work in Consciousness Research:
    • August 2016: Whiting Memorial Award: Dr. Neppe and his co-researcher were jointly honored with the worldwide multidisciplinary 2016 Whiting Memorial Award by the ISPE. The Charter of the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE) (www.thethousand.com) sets guidelines for this coveted prize: ?for expanding boundaries of scientific understanding?? ?to a person/ persons or organization typifying the ideal of someone who strives to benefit society in general through advanced enquiry, original research and/or creative contributions?. The award is ?only conferred when a select committee unanimously chooses a worthy nominee?. And ISPE?s only mission is ?to attract the world's most intellectually gifted individuals, and hopefully direct their achievements for the betterment of all humankind.? More detail will be found at http://vernonneppe.com/major_media.aspx. USA.
    • February 2013: Gabino Barreda recognition award and medal (?knowledge to foresee; foresee to actualize?) February 2013 ?for his history of service and contribution to the strengthening of the educational system?. Secretary of State, Puebla, Mexico. February 2013. Mexico.
    • Marius Valkhoff Medal, 1982: for "exceptional contributions ? research": An international award given occasionally (eleven recipients in 30 years). South Africa.
    • He is also listed (he has been told) in all issues of America?s Top Physicians.
  2. He was also in every edition of the peer-reviewed discontinued Woodward White's The Best Doctors in America.
  3. He was also chosen to lead another (cancelled with the recession) 1st USA and International Delegation in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropharmacology.
  4. He has written several books and published 700+ papers worldwide
  5. He has lectured in about a dozen countries, chaired international symposia on four continents,
  6. He has lectured extensively round the world and to about 90% of medical school affiliates in the United States. This includes a large number of psychiatric and neurological topics including anticonvulsants, and seizure related phenomena and including alcoholism, drug usage and abuse, and the effects of these drugs.
  7. He is (or has been) a Fellow or Senior Research Fellow or Distinguished Fellow or Diplomate and member of many professional associations. These include American and International Associations and Societies in the following disciplines: Psychiatry, Medicine, Neuropsychiatry, Epilepsy, Psychogeriatrics, Psychopharmacology, and Psychology.
  8. 36 Scientific copyrighted clinical and research instruments.
  9. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of American Psychiatric Assn. consultant.
  10. Licensed to practice medicine in Britain, in states of the United States, in Australia, and to be on the Canadian and South African specialist registers.
  11. He has served as editor of journals, acted as a referee for many scientific journals, published several books, and hundreds of articles, and is on the editorial boards.
  12. He acted as a consultant in various forms for about two decades on the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.
  13. In summary, Dr. Neppe is a behavioral neurologist, neuropsychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, psychiatrist, physician, epileptologist, movement disorder specialist (in tardive syndromes), author, consciousness researcher, philosopher of science, educator, ethicist, and forensic specialist. He is licensed to practice medicine in the State of Washington. He is Director of the Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute in Seattle, WA. He is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

  • Publications include:

  • 700+ publications
  • Well over 1000 invited lectures in more than a dozen countries.
  • Books www.brainvoyage.com include Cry the Beloved Mind: A Voyage of Hope; Reality Begins with Consciousness (5 editions) (book of the year awards); Deja vu (trilogy of books); Innovative Psychopharmacotherapy;
  • Training: University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Fellowship: Cornell University Medical School, New York, N

  • Links:

  • www.vernonneppe.org/forensics
  • www.pni.org/forensics/
  • KEY ARTICLES (MEDICAL) https://www.pni.org/key/
  • ENDURING https://www.pni.org/enduring/
  • Gateway www.VernonNeppe.org :
  • You-Tubes http://vernonneppe.org/presents/

  • Brain trauma including head injuries and brain injury due to tumor or brain events.

  • Four key chapters on Traumatic Brain Injury.
  • Traumatic brain injury group of the American Neuropsychiatric Association.
  • Referred such cases as consultant in Brain injury.
  • Development of measuring instruments of brain injury.
  • Commonly referred related cases clinically by other physicians of patients.
  • Retained forensically in this area.
  • Currently maintains a database.

  • Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry:

  • Published extensively in the area
  • Chapters in the area
  • Key certifications and fellowship.
  • Pioneered numerous areas.
  • Extensively published peer-reviewed papers including key chapters in books
  • Presentations on several continents
  • Commonly referred related cases clinically by other physicians of patients.
  • Retained forensically in this area.
  • Currently maintains a database.
  • First certification in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry
  • First (apparently) MD listed / acknowledged by the American Medical Association in Neuropsychiatry.
  • Led the USA and International Delegation in Neuropsychiatry and Psychopharmacology and also chosen to lead the USA and International Delegation in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropharmacology (did not occur because of funding issues).

  • Psychiatry:

  • Published extensively in the area
  • Books in the area
  • Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, highest public level.
  • Pioneered areas of phenomenology.
  • Extensively published peer-reviewed papers including key chapters in books and presentations on several continents
  • Commonly referred related cases clinically by other physicians of patients.
  • Retained forensically in this area.
  • Currently maintains a database.

  • Psychopharmacology:

  • Psychopharmacology is the study of brain drugs?written two books in the area.
  • Pioneered the use of anticonvulsant drugs in psychiatry, paroxysmal disorders and atypical seizures.
  • Led the USA and International Delegation in Psychopharmacology and Neuropsychiatry
  • Pioneered the psychopharmacology of epilepsy and psychiatry.
  • Expensively published peer-reviewed papers relating to seizures and related disorders including key chapters in books and presentations on several continents on anticonvulsants and their links to epilepsy, seizure disorders, the temporal lobe of the brain and psychiatry.
  • Chosen as one of the leading Psychopharmacologists of the Twentieth Century (by the CINP ? Collegium Internationale Neuropharmacologicum with invited autobiography).
  • Commonly referred related cases clinically by other physicians of patients.
  • Retained forensically in this area.
  • Two books in the discipline with major focus.
  • Currently maintains a database.

  • Pharmaceutical Patents

  • Specialized important component of Psychopharmacology and also Neuropharmacology.
  • Published specifically on Generic and Brand drug.
  • Published on HIPAA and security compliance.
  • Retained forensically in this area

  • Psychopharmacology: See above. All applies.

  • Psychopharmacology is the study of brain drugs?written two books in the area.
  • Pioneered the use of anticonvulsant drugs in psychiatry, paroxysmal disorders and atypical seizures.
  • Chosen to also lead the USA and International Delegation in Neuropharmacology and Behavioral Neurology
  • Pioneered the psychopharmacology of epilepsy and psychiatry.
  • Expensively published peer-reviewed papers relating to seizures and related disorders including key chapters in books and presentations on several continents on anticonvulsants and their links to epilepsy, seizure disorders, the temporal lobe of the brain and psychiatry. o Chosen as one of the leading Psychopharmacologists of the Twentieth Century (by the CINP ? Collegium Internationale Neuropharmacologicum with invited autobiography).
  • Commonly referred related cases clinically by other physicians of patients.
  • Currently maintains a database.
  • Lectured extensively in the areas of brain related drugs.

  • Seizure disorders

  • Chief Research Consultant, Epilepsy Institute, New York, 1989
  • Epilepsy Refining Medical Treatment faculty (about 50 members throughout U. S. A.) (when it existed).
  • Member of the American Epilepsy Society and presenter of papers in the area at the International meetings on the topic
  • Development of the entity of Paroxysmal Neurobehavioral Disorder and chapters in the area.
  • Dr. Neppe is commonly referred cases of patients with seizure disorder clinically by other physicians.
  • Seizure disorders group of the American Neuropsychiatric Association.
  • Commonly referred related cases clinically by other physicians of patients.
  • Retained forensically in this area.
  • Currently maintains a database.

  • Movement Disorders, Tardive Syndromes including Dyskinesia, Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome.

  • Published significantly in the area
  • Two key recent papers in tardive dyskinesia
  • Pioneering publication on NMS.
  • Developed the STRAW method of evaluation
  • Developed high dose buspirone treatment
  • Proposed the Dopamine 1 family/ Dopamine 2 hypotheses of differential tardive dyskinesia effects.
  • Provided support for the supersensitivity hypothesis.
  • Commonly referred related cases clinically by other physicians of patients.
  • Retained forensically in the area of movement disorders and neuroleptic related
  • complications like neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS).
  • Currently maintains a database on tardive syndromes and NMS.

  • Intelligence measurement

  • Because the issue of the patient?s intelligence has been raised and its relevance to organic brain disorder the following is also pertinent about Dr. Neppe?s expertise in that area:
  • World Intelligence Network 2007.
  • Membership (ISI-S, ISPE, ECAO, Olympiq and several other exceptional IQ organizations)
  • International Society for Intelligence Research, 2008-, Member (http://www.isironline.org)
  • Consultant (professional) in psychopharmacology to Harcourt, to develop a listing of medications and doses that are appropriate to use in normative controls in neuropsychology including Wechsler IQ and Memory Scale testing. (WAIS 4, WMS 4). 2006-2007. Therefore, he had significant enough expertise to be retained as the outside consultant in the Wechsler IQ Test by the company that makes the Wechsler test.
  • Neppe VM. Neppe Psychological Screen Questionnaire NPSQ © VMNeppe. 2007.
  • Supervising Psychometrist to the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry, 2015-
  • Exceptional Creative Achievement Organization (ECAO). Dr. Neppe is Executive Director which also involves assessing intelligence. Attained the unique rank of ?Distinguished Professor?.
  • Director, Human Performance Enhancement Division (HPED) of the World Institute Scientific Exploration (WISE) 2012
  • Faculty, Applied Consciousness Research Division of WISE, 2012
  • Commonly referred related cases clinically by other physicians of patients.
  • Retained forensically in this area.
  • Currently maintains a database.

  • Temporal lobe:

  • Tens of publications.
  • Masters and doctoral theses.
  • Development of measuring instruments / questionnaires
  • Lectured worldwide in the area.
  • Commonly referred related cases clinically by other physicians of patients.
  • Retained forensically in this area.
  • Currently maintains a database.

  • Recreational drugs and alcohol:

  • Publications on chindling (chemical induced kindling usually associated with drugs of abuse like cocaine)
  • Publications on marijuana.
  • Published on alcohol.
  • Commonly referred related cases clinically by other physicians of patients.
  • Retained forensically in this area.
  • Currently maintains a database.

  • Narcolepsy:

  • Development of possibly the only screening questionnaire Neppe Narcolepsy Questionnaire.
  • Grand rounds in the area.
  • Published a key review article.
  • Commonly referred related cases clinically by other physicians of patients.
  • Currently maintains a database.

  • Neuropsychiatric test evaluations:

  • Developed two dozen plus test evaluations for use in clinical and in forensic patients to evaluate various psychological, psychiatric and neuropsychiatric conditions.
  • Published on several of these.

  • Consciousness research:

  • Published extensively in the discipline.
  • Lectured worldwide including on the award winning Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm.
  • Pioneered the new science of Dimensional Biopsychophysics.
  • Systems theorist.

  • Philosophy of science:

  • Developed the models of feasibility in addition to falsifiability.
  • Lectured, inter alia, as Keynote speaker at an international Forensics conference on this.
  • Modified the Kuhnian and Popperian models.
  • Published significantly in this area.
  • PhD and post-doctoral research
  • Developed numerous research questionnaires
  • Developed tens of research methodologies in medical, consciousness and dimensional biopsychophysics research
  • Pioneered the new Lower Dimensional Feasibility Absent Falsification method in the philosophy of science
  • Published significantly in this area.
  • Consulted in this area
  • Tens of pioneering research publications
  • Database

  • Nutrition and supplements:

  • Careful attention to the pharmacological (pharmacokinetic and pharmacokinetic) effects of nutritional supplements.
  • Assessment of strengths and dangers of supplements
  • Assessment of methodologies to add such supplements to medical regimens in a variety of neuropsychiatric conditions.
  • Careful attention to the metabolic variants.
  • Published in the discipline.
  • Consulted in this area
  • Database.
  • Generic and branded agents

 

 


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