Prof. C. R. Mukundan
Prof. C.R. Mukundan, Ph.D., D.M. & S.P. is
presently a Chairman at Axxonet Brain Research Laboratory, Axxonet System
Technology, Bengaluru. He is a Neuropsychologist who has worked in the clinical
and forensic disciplines. He was a faculty in the Department of Clinical
Psychology of the National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences
(NIMHANS), Bangalore, from 1974 to 2003. He functioned as Professor Emeritus in
the Institute of Behavioral Science, GFSU, Gujarat, for more than three years
from 2013. He set up the Clinical Neuropsychology Services at NIMHANS in the
mid-1970 and later set up a Neuropsychological Laboratory for cognitive
electrophysiological experiments at NIMHANS. He has worked on several funded
research projects and published essentially in the clinical neurocognitive
area, including the first research papers from India on computer quantified
time-frequency domain analyses of EEG. He was chief/joint research supervisor
for about 70 doctoral and other research projects in clinical and experimental
Neuropsychology for students in Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Neurology,
Neurosurgery, and Engineering. He designed a 24 channels EEG system and
assembled it in late 1970 at NIMHANS, which was used in several research
projects. He designed a cognitive retraining program (Brain Function Therapy)
for brain-damaged patients and for children with learning disabilities and got
a computer program developed for its use. His cognitive electrophysiological
work on remembrance of autobiographical information was developed into a
forensic tool, which has been named Brain Electrical Oscillations Signature
(BEOS) profiling, and it has been successfully used as an aid for forensic
formulations and investigations in hundreds of cases. Based on
neuropsychological principles of brain functioning, he developed a computerized
‘Neurobehavioral Controls and Potentiality Measurement’ test and other
behavioral measures for use in corporate organizations. He started his efforts
to study emotion in the past 5 years, mainly to know the role of emotional
arousal in the neurogenesis of actions, for understanding the genesis of
violent acts. “Emotion – The Driving Force” is his fourth book. The diversities
of experiential and experimental approaches in understanding the cognitive
modulation of emotions and issues related to sensory-motor contacts are
discussed in the book.