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DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS KNIGHT |
Descendants of Thomas Knight, Essex, Union, & Middlesex Counties, New Jersey
21.ROBERT THOMAS5 KNIGHT (ROBERTJOSEPH4, JOSEPH THOMAS3, HENRY PATRICK2, THOMAS1) was born March 10, 1948 in Newark, Essex Co. NJ, St. Michaels Hospital. He married (1) SUSAN HOFFMAN August 24, 1969 in St. Mary's R.C. Church, South Amboy, NJ31. He married (2) ROBBI DOREEN SIMONS May 28, 1978 in Encinitas, San Diego, Ca.. He married (3) DONATELLA SCABINI August 29, 1993 in Berkeley, Ca at the home of friends.
Notes for ROBERT THOMAS
KNIGHT:
Robert Thomas Knight graduated from Illinois
Institute of Technology in June 1970; he had received a full scholarship to
that school. He went to Medical School at Northwestern University, Chicago; received
his M.D. degree in June 1974; served his internship in medicine for one year at
Cook County Hospital; served a three year residency in Neurology at University
of Californnia at San Diego, finishing in 1978.While in San Diego he also had
experience in the laboratories at Salk Institute, La Jolla, Ca.
Dr. Robert Thomas Knight, M.D., used to be a Professor of Neurology, University of California, Davis, Veteran's Medical Center, 150 Muir Rd., Martinez, Ca. 94553. He saw neurological patients in the clinic there and at Highland Hospital in San Francisco. He had a neurological research laboratory at the Veteran's Medical Center, and specialized in diseases of the brain.
He is a well known speaker at medical conferences around the world on the subject of the brain and neurological diseases.
BERKELEY --11/17/98- The Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, has appointed a neurologist to its faculty - believed to be the first brain physician hired by a psychology faculty anywhere in the country.
Dr. Robert Thomas Knight, formerly with the medical school at the University of California, Davis, has gathered a research group of neurological patients that will greatly expand neuroscience research at UC Berkeley. Among other things, his appointment will allow UC Berkeley psychologists to better integrate cognitive theory with studies of the human brain.
"This is a highly unusual appointment," said Sheldon Zedeck, former chairman of psychology who helped to hire Knight. "Here is someone who is working with brain damaged patients and who will help us bring together the physical brain and psychological theories."
The appointment adds emphasis to UC Berkeley's role as a health science campus which has, as one aim, the integration of physics, biology and psychology in breaking open the secrets of the human brain.
In psychology, cognitive theory has been based mainly on studies of normal human behavior, in addition to research on animal brains and behavior.
What has been lacking is a patient population," said Stephen Palmer, director of the Institute of Cognitive Studies at UC Berkeley. "Huge areas of psychology are waiting to be explored with the inferences we can make based on different kinds of brain damage."
The unprecedented nature of the appointment was echoed by well-known neuroscientist, Michael S. Gazzaniga, of Dartmouth College and author of the new book "The Mind's Past" (University of California Press, 1998).
"This is big news," said Gazzaniga. "It's an idea whose time has come." "There's been a huge gap between the neurosciences and psychology," said Gazzaniga. "Berkeley's action in hiring a medical doctor rings a loud bell and hopefully will push other psychology departments to do the same."
A physician at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Martinez and at the Highland and Merrithew hospitals for more than 15 years and a professor of neurology at the UC Davis Medical School for 18, Knight has a network of 120 patients with discrete damage in particular parts of the brain. The patients, all treated originally at these local hospitals, participate as voluntary subjects in a wide variety of basic brain studies on visual perception, motor function, memory, language and attention.
"They are enthusiastic about helping us understand how the brain works, even though there may not be implications for treatment," said Knight. "Our aim is to understand normal human behavior by studying people with certain kinds of brain damage. There may be medical interventions down the road, but not at the moment."
Knight's primary interest lies in the functions of the prefrontal cortex, the lobes right behind the forehead which are the seat of higher cognitive functions and which play a primary role in controlling emotion, attention and creativity.
Knight said that with modern ways of scanning the brain, things that were deemed unapproachable ten years ago, such as studying the neurobiology of creativity or attention focusing, can now be done.
The ability to compare normal individuals with patients who have specific lesions in parts of the brain such as the prefrontal cortex is crucial to making progress in the neurosciences, said Knight.
"Berkeley is making a big effort to integrate the neurosciences with psychology," he said.
August 29, 1993
Sarah, Bob, Donatella Knight
More About ROBERT THOMAS
KNIGHT:
Christened: St. Peter's R.C. Ch, Newark, NJ
as an infant
Religion: Roman Catholic
Occupation: M.D. Brain Research, neurology32
Hobbies: Sports
Talent: Well Known Medical speaker
Education: 1966, Graduated St. Mary's High,
South Amboy
Education: June 1974, graduate, Northwestern
School of Med, MD
Residences: Laurence Harbor, Chicago, San
Diego,
Residences: Berkeley, El Cerrito, Ca.33
More About DONATELLA SCABINI:
Education: PhD
Child of ROBERT KNIGHT and ROBBI
SIMONS is:
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SARA SIMONE6 KNIGHT, b. April 10, 1980, Berkeley, California33. |
22.PAUL JOSEPH5KNIGHT (ROBERT JOSEPH4, JOSEPH THOMAS3, HENRY PATRICK2, THOMAS1) was born November 21, 1952 in St. Michaels Hospital, Newark, Essex Co. NJ33. He married CHRISTINA ALLEN August 18, 1979 in Granby, Massachusetts at bride's home34.
More About PAUL JOSEPH
KNIGHT:
Christened: St. Laurence R. C. Ch. Laurence
Harbor, NJ
Religion: Roman Catholic
Occupation: Botanist
Occupation: Environmental science
Hobbies: Build Furniture, Den Father, hikes,
camps,etc
Talent: Artist, Genealogy
Education: Graduated St. Mary's High, South
Amboy, NJ
Education: Univ of Delaware, Bachelor's
Degree
Military: Graduated Univ of Mexico, Masters
degree
Residences: Laurence Harbor, NJ- childhood,
Newark, DE.
Residences: New Mexico, Corrales, NM near
Albuquerque35
Children of PAUL KNIGHT and CHRISTINA
ALLEN are:
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SAMARA LEBARON6 KNIGHT, b. March 12, 1982, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Graduated from Sandia Preparatory School, New Mexico, near Corrales, June 2000. |
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ALEXANDER PATRICK KNIGHT, b. January 24, 1985, Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
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1. Our Lady Help Of Christians Church, East Orange
NJ Baptismal Record.
2. Death certificate of Joseph Thomas Knight
3. Marriage certificate in Essex Co. N.J.
4. Holy Sepulchre Office Cemetery Records, East
Orange, NJ
5. Birthdate comes from Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
Office records.
6. Holy Sepulchre Cemetery Office records.
7. From St. Catherine's R.C. Church records,
Hillside, N.J.
8.
9. From Sarah Loretta Lacey herself
10. ,Personal knowledge of the compiler, Loretta,
and Joan Mazauskas
11. His wife, Jean, told me that Robert was born 16
March 1916. His army discharge says 17 March but that is an error.
12. The date comes directly from Jean Knight.
13. Jean Knight
14. and 15. deleted by compiler per request of persons concerned.
16. Original birth certificate issued in the name of
William Louis Knight given to him by his mother and registered in Trenton, N.J.
He was delivered by Dr. Henry Loux, M.D. at #30 Avy St. Hillside. His discharge
says born 1918, but it is an error.
17. Thelma F. Prince and William L. Prince
18. This is the date of the civil ceremony as given
by Helen. Later, she and Andy had a church wedding. See notes.
19. Loretta Knight Klein, Joan Mazauskas, personal
knowledge of compiler.
20. Joan Mazauskas
21. Joan Lacey Mazauskas
22. His mother Joan Mazauskas
23. Her mother Joan Mazauskas
24. Joan Mazauskas provided the information on her
family.
25. Loretta Lacey Klein gave the facts about this
family.
26. Robert George Wyatt
27. Lynne Frances Lacey
28. Joan Mazauskas
29. Lynne Lacey Stires
30. Lynne Frances Stires
31. Mother Jean Knight
32. Personal knowledge having visited Bob in his
laboratory in California.
33. Jean Knight
34. His mother Jean Knight
35. Jean Knight
44. I was there and witnessed their marriage. The
record is filed in Edison, Middlesex Co. N.J.
45. Mother, Thelma Faye Prince
46. Connie Prince
47. Constance Sue Prince.
48. Connie and Jeffrey Prince