José Manuel Giménez Amaya

José Manuel Giménez Amaya (Madrid, June 18, 1958) is a neuroscientist and philosopher from Spain. He has been Professor of Anatomy and Embryology at the Autonomous University of Madrid (2002-2010) and Professor of Science, Reason and Faith at the University of Navarra since 2012. On May 14, 2011, he was ordained as catholic priest by the bishop Javier Echevarría Rodríguez at the Basilica Sant’Eugenio a Valle Giulia in Rome (Italy).
== Academic career ==
He studied medicine (M.D.) at the Autonomous University of Madrid (1975-1981) where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1983. He did his postdoctoral training with Professor Fernando Reinoso Suárez at the Autonomous University of Madrid (1984-1987) and with Professor Ann M. Graybiel at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1987-1989).
He also studied Philosophy at the University of Navarra (2007-2010) where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 2011.
== Research == 
=== Neuroscience ===
His areas of interest in neurobiology have been the brain structures involved in movement and psychiatric disorders. He has also studied the cellular a chemical organization of the basal ganglia and other subcortical structures in the normal human brain and in the brain from patients with schizophrenia.
He has collaborated with other laboratories of Neuroscience both in the United States Professor Suzane N. Haber at the University of Rochester and James H. Meador-Woodroff at the University of Alabama and in Canada Professor André Parent at Laval University.
=== Philosophy ===
His work is based on three main topics: the mind-brain problem, neuroethics and the study of the works of the well-known moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre.
His research in this field has been quite remarkable in trying to develop an interdisciplinary approach between Neuroscience and Philosophy alike. He is also one of the most outstanding scholars in the Spanish-speaking world on Alasdair MacIntyre.
== Recognitions ==
*Correspondent Member of the Spanish Royal National Academy of Pharmacy (2006). 
*Correspondent Member of the Spanish Royal National Academy of Medicine (2008). 
*Director of the Group Science, Reason and Faith (CRYF) at the University of Navarra (2010-2016).
*Vice Dean of the Ecclesiastical Philosophy School at the University of Navarra (2016-2017). 
*Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at the University of Navarra (1997-2001).
*Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome (Italy).
== Selected works ==
=== Neuroscience ===
*Giménez-Amaya, J. M., Graybiel, A. M., Modular organization of projection neurons in the matrix compartment of the primate striatum, The Journal of Neuroscience, 11 (1991), pp. 779–791. DOI
*Giménez Amaya, J. M., The association cortex and the basal ganglia: a neuroanatomical view upon their relationship based on hodological studies, Journal für Hirnforschung, 32 (1991), pp. 501–510. Dedicated to Professor Walle J. H. Nauta.
*Hontanilla, B., de las Heras, S., Giménez-Amaya, J. M., A topographic re-evaluation of the nigrostriatal projections to the caudate nucleus in the cat with multiple retrograde tracers, Neuroscience, 72 (1996), pp. 485–503.DOI
*Prensa, L., Giménez-Amaya, J. M. Parent A., Morphological features of neurons containing calcium-binding proteins in the human striatum, The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 390 (1998), pp. 552–563. DOI
*Alelú-Paz, R., Giménez-Amaya, J. M., The mediodorsal thalamic nucleus revisited and schizophrenia, Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 33 (2008), pp. 489–498. DOI
=== Philosophy ===
==== Mind-brain problem ====
*Giménez Amaya, J. M., “A better understanding of freedom. An interdisciplinary approach to neuroscience and philosophy”, in Moral Behavior and Free Will: A Neurobiological and Philosophical Approach, J.J. Sanguineti, A. Acerbi, J.A. Lombo (eds.), 2011, Morolo: IF Press, pp. 47–60.
*Sánchez-Migallón, S., Giménez-Amaya, J. M., Phenomenological analysis of the emotional life and a note on its neurobiological correlation, Scientia et Fides, 2 (2014), pp. 47–66. DOI
*Lombo, J. A., Giménez-Amaya, J. M., The unity and the stability of human behavior: An interdisciplinary approach to habits between philosophy and neuroscience, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8 (2014), p. 607 DOI
==== Neuroethics ====
*Giménez-Amaya, J. M., Sánchez-Migallón, S., Anthropological and ethical dilemmas in the recent development of neuroscience, Imago Hominis, 17 (2010), pp. 181-188.
==== Moral philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre ====
*Bello, H. J., Giménez Amaya, J. M., Valoración ética de la modernidad según Alasdair MacIntyre, Pamplona: EUNSA, 2018. ISBN: 978-84-313-3284-6. With an analytical index, both in Spanish and in English, of all the published works of Alasdair MacIntyre until 2018
==In the media==
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==References==
==External links==
* José Manuel Giménez Amaya | Social Trends Institute
* José Manuel Giménez Amaya, new dean of the Ecclesiastical Faculty of Philosophy
* José Manuel Giménez Amaya | University of Navarra
* José Manuel Giménez Amaya - Flickr
* JM Giménez-Amaya's research works | College
* José Manuel Giménez Amaya - Dialnet
* José Manuel Giménez-Amaya - Loop
* The problems of the liberal university according to Alasdair MacIntyre
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