Author Archives: Dean G. Blevins

About Dean G. Blevins

Dr. Dean G. Blevins currently serves as Professor of Practical Theology and Christian Discipleship at Nazarene Theological Seminary as well as Director of Nurturing Care with Children through Worship and Prayer. An ordained elder, Dean has ministered in diverse settings and currently also serves at the USA Regional Education Coordinator for the Church of the Nazarene. A prolific author, Dr. Blevins recently co-wrote the textbook Discovering Discipleship and edits Didache: Faithful Teaching, a journal for Wesleyan Education.

Neuroscience Applications in Society

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Dean G. Blevins

Farah provided a closing overview of the new ways neuroscience is interacting with society including examples of current and near-term applications of neuroscience in our lives through manipulating brain function and measuring brain function. And closed with a discussion of … Continue reading →

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Other sources

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Dean G. Blevins

I was away from the computer for a really helpful presentation that I may try to report later but I did want to note some other really helpful resources from other members in the group. See the Lisa Sansom’s Blog … Continue reading →

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Personality

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Dean G. Blevins

Dr. Joseph Kable provided an overview of different approaches to studying personality in Neuroscience. I will only touch on one since the others were a little unclear to me. One approach was using fMRI/BOLD studies of the brain correlated to … Continue reading →

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Aging

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Dean G. Blevins

Dr. Wolk returned to discuss Aging. Basic concerns with this area surface when you consider the data that we are seeing a Significant increases in proportion of elderly in developed countries due to reduced birth rates; increased longevity so that … Continue reading →

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Nature and Nurture

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Dean G. Blevins

Interesting morning on developmental considerations with Martha Farah which should resonate with most of my students. Primarily the opening theme addressed the idea that development is both nature and nurture beginning with behavioral genetics studies in heritability (both adoption studies … Continue reading →

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Reading and Dyslexia

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Dean G. Blevins

Important to remember that reading is a cultural phenomena. Not all cultures developed reading in the same way which raises issues concerning the next cognitive disorder. Chatterjee presented a case where an subject learned to read a second language in … Continue reading →

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Pathologies of Cognition

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Dean G. Blevins

Afternoon presentation focuses on pathologies of cognition with Dr. Anjan Chatterjee. Session opened with definitions for dementia and Alzheimer disease. One indicator is patient/relative ratio rule of thumb (when patient concerned but not relative then depression, when relative concerned but … Continue reading →

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