Overview
Juan M. Pascual is an experimental scientist and clinician. He has broad mentorship and collaborative expertise on several areas of inquiry conducted in various settings. Interests include explanation and causation in neural science with particular attention to atomism, and teleology from the perspective of the transmission of function across the biological scale. He is writing a book on conceptual confusions in neuroscience and their consequences. The approach is analytical rather than descriptive. His perspective is influenced by his friend Peter Hacker, who was a friend of Norman Malcolm (of Cornell Philosophy fame), who was a friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Prior to joining Cornell University, Dr. Pascual was the inaugural The Once Upon a Time Foundation Professor in Pediatric Neurologic Diseases and, simultaneously, the Ed and Sue Rose Distinguished Professor in Neurology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Clinical Expertise
Dr. Pascual is an attending physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/ Weill Cornell Medical Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Hospital for Special Surgery. He specializes in particularly complex, severe or undiagnosed neurological diseases of children and adults. Most of his patients visit from across the U.S. and the world.
Research Focus
His experimental expertise ranges from cerebral metabolism, neurogenetics and neurophysiology to the quantitative analysis of behavior. Unusual, large scale projects have included the study of thousands of mice to discover mutants that exceed the limits of biological performance, laying the groundwork for the isolation of the brain from the rest of the body, or following metabolic activity as it crosses biological domains from neural circuits to persons to be leveraged as treatment for certain diseases. Other projects and interests are accessible below:
Journal publications (PubMed)
Recent NIH-funded research projects (NIH Reporter)
Recent clinical research studies (ClinicalTrials.gov)
Academic profile (Medical School)
Clinicalprofile (Weill Cornell Medicine)
Affiliations
Departments and programs
Philosophy
Affiliated Colleges
College of Arts and Sciences
Cornell University Medical College
Affiliations
Philosophy
Pediatrics
Neurology
Neuroscience
