Don L Jewett

PeerJ Author

Summary

MD degree, UCSF, 1960; D.Phil. Oxford, 1963; PostDoc. Yale, 1964; UCSF Full Time Faculty 1965 to 1991, Physiology and Orthopaedic Surgery. Prof. Emeritus 1991. Research Director, Abratech Corporation, 1991-present. Research publications in a variety of fields:
Auditory Brainstem Response, Mechanism of C-fiber block in Neurosurgical procedure, Bone Potentials in the Jaw due to Orthodontia, MultiLevel Textbooks, Effect of Cost Disease on Medical Education, 3-channel Lissajous Trajectory, Dipole Analysis of Volume Conducted Potentials, Blood-Containing Aerosols in the Operating Room, Effects of Indoor Lighting on development of Myopia, Q-Sequence deconvolution, A-waves at above-fusion stimulus rates.

Computer Education Computer Networks & Communications Digital Libraries Network Science & Online Social Networks Neuroscience Science & Medical Education World Wide Web & Web Science

Past or current institution affiliations

UC San Francisco

Work details

Research Director

Abratech Corporation

June 1991

A small business devoted to development of scalp-recordings for clinical and research purposes.

Ladder-rank Faculty-- to Prof. Emeritus

University of California, San Francisco

June 1965 - June 1991

Faculty and teaching in Physiology and Orthopaedic Surgery

March 13, 2017 - Version: 13

When scholars use Knowledge-Step Forums to create Web-Compended Guides to the literature of their fields, paradigm-shifts will occur in the processes of knowledge creation and in graduate education.

Don L Jewett

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1568v13

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29 Feb 2016

Embodiment as preparation: Pupillary responses to words that convey a sense of brightness or darkness

While the pupil DOES respond to changes of light intensity, such as to a Doctor's flashlight, the biological function is related to the requirements of peripheral vision, as indica...

20 Mar 2016

Embodiment as preparation: Pupillary responses to words that convey a sense of brightness or darkness

I think I spoke just a little too quickly. In my textbook I quoted a scientist that the % change in pupil is too small to deal with the 6 orders of magnitude change in lighting fr...