Last updated: December, 2001

David Galin, M.D.

Associate Professor in Residence
Department of Psychiatry
Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute
School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

        EDUCATION

        Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio: B.S. 1957; Biology
        Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York:  M.D. 1961; Medicine
        Mt. Zion Hospital Center, San Francisco, 1962; Rotating Medical
        Internship   
        National Institutes of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland;
        Research       
        Associate 1962-1965; Neurobiology of attention (Prof. Robert Livingston)
        1968; Autonomic feedback and behavior (Dr. John I. Lacey) Fels Research
        Institute, Yellow Springs, Ohio: Postdoctoral Fellow 1965-

        MAJOR AWARDS 

        Career Researcher Award, NIMH, 1968-1978

Citation Classic Award, Science Citation Index, in1983 and in1991, for
       research publications most cited in their field.

EDITORIAL SERVICE:

Consciousness and Cognition (Editorial Board)
J. Consciousness Studies
Science
EEG and Clin. Neurophysiology 
Biological Psychiatry
Archives of General Psychiatry
Brain and Language
Psychophysiology
J. Math Education
J. Nervous and Mental Disease
Neuropsychologia

 PUBLICATIONS  (abstracts omitted)

1.      Galin, D.  Auditory nuclei:  Distinctive patterns of white noise and tones in unanesthetized cats.  Science, 146:270-272, 1964.

2.      Galin, D.  Effects of conditioning on auditory signals.  In W.S. Fields and B.R. Alford (eds.) Neurological Aspects of Auditory and Vestibular Disorders, Springfield, IL:  C.C. Thomas, 1964, pp. 61-76.

3.      Galin, D.  Background and evoked activity in the auditory pathway:  Effects of noise-shock pairing.  Science, 149:761-763, 1965.

4.      Galin, D., Ornstein, R.E., Kocel, K., and Merrin, E.  Hemispheric localization of cognitive mode by EEG.  Psychophysiology, 8(2):246-247, 1971.

5.      Galin, D. and Lacey, J.I.  Reaction time and heart rate response pattern: Effects of reticular stimulation in cats. Physiology and Behavior, 8:729- 739, 1972.

6.      Galin, D. and Ornstein, R.E.  Lateral specialization of cognitive mode:  An EEG study.  Psychophysiology, 9:412-418, 1972.

7.      Kocel, K., Galin, D., Ornstein, R.E., and Merrin, E.L.  Lateral eye movement and cognitive mode.  Psychonomic Science. 27:223-224, 1972.

8.      Ornstein, R.E. and Galin, D.  Physiological Studies of Consciousness. London: The Institute for Cultural Research, 1973.

9.      Galin, D. and Ornstein, R.E. Individual difference in cognitive style: 1.Reflective eye movement.  Neuropsychologia, 12:367-376, 1974.

10.  Doyle, J.C., Ornstein, R.E., and Galin, D.  Lateralization of cognitive mode: II.  EEG frequency analysis.  Psychophysiology, 11(5):567-578, 1974.   

11.  Galin, D.  Implications for psychiatry of left and right cerebral specialization.  Archives of General Psychiatry, 31:572-583, 1974.

12.  Galin, D. and Ornstein, R.E.  Lateral cerebral specialization and the duality of consciousness.  In Human Behavior and Brain Function: Walnut Creek Symposium, Springfield, IL:  C.C. Thomas, 1975.

13.  Galin, D. and Ellis, R.R.  Asymmetry in evoked potentials as an index of lateralized cognitive processes:  Relation to EEG alpha asymmetry.  Neuropsychologica, 13:45-50, 1975.

14.  Galin, D.  Hemispheric specialization: Implications for psychiatry.  In R.G. Grenell and S. Gabay (eds.) Biological Foundations of Psychiatry.  1976.

15.  Ornstein, R.E. and Galin, D.  Physiological studies of consciousness.  AAAS Symposium on Consciousness, New York:  Viking Press, 1976.

16.  Galin, D.  Two modes of consciousness and two halves of the brain.  AAAS Symposium on Consciousness, New York:  Viking Press, 1976.

17.  Galin, D.  Duality of the brain:  Implications for education.  Childhood Education, 53(1):17-20, 1976.  Reprinted in Readings in Early Childhood Education 78/79, Annual Editions, 1979.

18.  Galin, D. and Ellis, R.R.  Indices of lateralized cognitive process:  Relation of evoked potential asymmetry to EEG alpha asymmetry.  In J.E. Desmedt (ed.), Cerebral Evoked Potentials in Man, Vol. 3, Basel:  S. Karger, 1977, pp. 140-150.

19.  Galin, D., Diamond, R., and Braff, D.  Lateralization of conversion symptoms:  More frequent on the left.  American Journal of Psychiatry, 134(5):578-580, 1977.

20.  Galin, D., Diamond, R., and Herron, J.  Development of crossed and uncrossed tactile localization on the fingers.  Brain and Language, 4:588-590, 1977.

21.  Galin, D.  Lateral specialization in psychiatric issues:  Speculations on development and the evolution of consciousness.  In S.J. Dimond and D.A. Blizard (eds.), Evolution and Lateralization of the Brain, New York Academy of Sciences, N.Y.  299:397-411, 1977.

22.  Galin, D., Ornstein, R.E., Adams, J.E., and Rutkin, B.B.  Unilateral driving of olfactory spindles in the human amygdala.  Journal of Altered States of Consciousness, 3(2):103-110, 1977.

23.  Herron, J., Galin, D., and Ornstein, R.E.  Handedness and sex differences in EEG asymmetry and dichotic measures.  Psychophysiology, 14(1):82, 1977.

24.  Galin, D., Johnstone, J., and Herron, J.  Effects of task difficulty on EEG  measures of cerebral engagement.  Neuropsychologia, 16:461-472, 1978.

25.  Galin, D.  Cerebral lateral asymmetry and psychiatric issues.  The Western Journal of Medicine, 129(6):490, 1978.

26.  Johnstone, J., Galin, D., and Herron, J.  Choice of handedness measures in studies of hemispheric specialization.  International Journal of Neuroscience, 1979, 9, 71-80.

27.  Herron, J., Galin, D., Johnstone, J., and Ornstein, R.E.  Cerebral specialization, writing posture and motor control of writing in left-handers.  Science, 1979, 205, 1285-1289.

28.  Galin, D., Johnstone, J., Nakell, L., and Herron, J.  Development of the capacity for tactile information transfer between hemispheres in normal children. Science, 1979, 204, 1330, 1332.

29.  Galin, D.  Methodological problems and opportunities in EEG studies of lateral specialization.  NINCDS Symposium on Neurological Bases of Language Disorders in Children:  Methods and Directions for Research, NIH Pub. No. 79-4409, 1980.

30.  Galin, D., Ornstein, R.E., Herron, J., and Johnstone, J.  Sex and handedness differences in EEG measures of hemispheric specialization.  Brain and Language, 1982, 16, 19-55.

31.  Brown, B., Haegerstrom-Portnoy, G., Yingling, C.D., Herron, J., Galin, D., and Marcus, M.  Dyslexic children have normal vestibular responses to rotation.  Arch. Neurology, 40:370-373, 1983.

32.  Brown, B., Haegerstrom-Portnoy, G., Adams, A.J., Yingling, C.D., Galin, D., Herron, J., and Marcus, M.  Predictive eye movements do not discriminate between dyslexic and control children.  Neuropsychologia, 21:121-128, 1983.

33.  Brown, B., Haegerstrom-Portnoy, G., Yingling, C.D., Herron, J. Galin, D., and Marcus, M.  Tracking eye movements are normal in dyslexic children.  Am. J. Optometry and Physiological Optics, 60:376-383, 1983.

34.  Fein, G., Galin, D., Johnstone, J., Yingling, C.D., Marcus, M., and Kiersch, M.E.  EEG power spectra in normal and dyslexic children.  I:  Reliability during passive conditions.  Electroenceph Clin Neurophysiol, 55:399-405, 1983.

35.  Galin, D, and Ornstein, R.E. "This week’s Citation Classic: Lateral specialization for cognitive mode"; Current Contents (No.49), p. 20, Dec. 5, 1983.

36.  Johnstone, J., Galin, D., Yingling, C.D., Herron, J. and Marcus, M.  Regional brain activity in dyslexic and control children during reading tasks:  Visual probe event-related potentials.  Brain and Language, 21, 233-254, 1984.

37.  Dark, K.A., Ellman, G., Peeke, H.V.S., Galin, D.,and Reus, V.  Sex differences and asymmetries of brain catecholamines:  relation to turning preferences in rats.  Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 20, 327-330, 1984.

38.  Fein, G., Galin, D., Yingling, C., Johnstone, J.  EEG Spectra in 10-12 year old boys are stable over l to 3 years.  EEG Clin. Neurophysiol. 58, 517-518, 1984.

39.  Brown, B., Haegerstrom-Portnoy, G., Herron, J., Galin, D., Yingling, C.D., and Marcus, M. Static postural stability is normal in dyslexic children.  J Learning Disabilities, 18, 31-34, 1985.

40.  Davenport, L., Yingling, C.D., Fein, G.F., Galin, D., Johnstone, J.:  Narrative speech deficits in dyslexics.  J. Clin. Exp. Neuropsychol., 8, 347-361, 1986.

41.  Yingling, C.D., Galin, D., Fein, G., Peltzman, D., Davenport, L.:  "Neurometrics does not detect "pure" dyslexic children".  EEG Clin. Neurophysiol., 63:426-430, 1986.

42.  Fein, G., Galin, D., Yingling, C.D., and Johnstone, J.  EEG spectra in dyslexic and control boys during resting conditions.  EEG Clin. Neurophysiol., 63:87-97, 1986.

43.  Galin, D.  Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Neuropsychological Studies of Depression:  An optimistic overview.  In M. Kinsbourne (ed.), Cerebral Hemisphere Function in Depression,  Progress in Psychiatry Series; Wash., D.C.:  Amer. Psychiat. Press, 1988, pp. 165-190.

44.  Galin, D., Herron, J., Johnstone, J., Yingling, C., and Fein, G.  EEG Alpha asymmetry in dyslexics during speaking and block design tasks.  Brain and Language., 35:241-253, 1988.

45.  Fein., G., Davenport, L., Yingling, C.D., and Galin, D.  Verbal and non-verbal memory deficits in pure dyslexia. Developmental Neuropsychology., 4(3), 181-197, 1988.

46.  Galin, D., EEG Studies in Dyslexia: the UCSF Dyslexia Project.  In D.J. Bakker and H. van der Vlugt (eds), Learning Disabilities, Vol. I: Neuropsychological Correlates and Treatment.  Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1989, pp. 149-171.

47.  Galin, D. and Nachman, M.  Story recall under monaural and binaural
conditions: patients with anterior temporal lesions.  J. Nerv. Mental Dis., 178(1), 15-19, 1990.

48.  Galin, D., Rodgers, V., and Merrin, E.L.  Story recall under monaural and binaural conditions in psychiatric patients.  Biol. Psychiatry., 28:794-806, 1990.

49.  Galin, D. "This week’s Citation Classic: Getting yourself together; hemispheric autonomy and/or integration"; Current Contents 19(42):10, 1991.

50.  Galin, D.  The blind wise men and the elephant of consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition., 1:8-11., 1992.

51.  Galin, D., Raz, J., Fein, G., Johnstone, J., Herron, J., and Yingling, C. EEG spectra in dyslexic and normal readers during oral and silent reading.  Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology., 82:87-101, 1992

52.  Galin, D. Theoretical reflection on awareness, monitoring, and self in relation to anosognosia.  Consciousness and Cognition., 1:152-162, 1992.

53.  Galin, D.  Beyond the fringe. Consciousness and cognition., 2:113-118, 1993.

54.  Galin, D.  The structure of awareness: contemporary applications of William James's forgotten concept of "the fringe."  Journal of Mind and Behavior., 15(4):375-400, 1994.

55.  Galin, D.  What is the difference between a duck?  In J. Cohen and J. Schooler (eds), Scientific Approaches to the Question of Consciousness.  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995, pp.  445-450.

56.  Galin, D.  The structure of subjective experience: sharpen the concepts and terminology.  In S. R. Hameroff, A.W. Kaszniak, and A. C. Scott, (eds), Toward a Science of Consciousness. 1996, pp. 121-140.

57.  Galin, D.  The Brain as “The Little Computer that Could”: Review of The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul, by Paul M. Churchland, 1996,  J. International Neuropsychology Soc.4:(3): 305-307.

58.  Galin, D.   Separating First-Personness from the other problems of Consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6 (2-3), 222-229.

59.  Galin, D.   Comments on Epstein's Neurocognitive Interpretation of William James's Model of Consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition, 9, 576-583, 2000. 

60.  Galin, D.  The concepts of Self and Person in Buddhism and in Contemporary Western Science. In B. A. Wallace (ed), Breaking New Ground: Essays on Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Science. Oxford Univ. Press (in press, 2001).

                        The following are in progress or under review: 

61.  Galin, D.   Rehabilitating the concept “Spirit” for the non-religious and the scientifically-minded.