
출생: January 19, 1956 – Seattle, Washington, United States
John Medina is a developmental molecular biologist and popular science author whose work makes neuroscience accessible to general readers, focusing on learning, memory, child development, and aging. He is best known for Brain Rules and Brain Rules for Baby; Brain Rules became a best-selling, widely translated introduction to how brain research applies to work, education, and family life.
John Medina built his career at the meeting point of laboratory science and public explanation. Trained as a molecular biologist, he earned two bachelor’s degrees from the University of Washington in 1981, one in cellular and molecular biology and one in microbiology and immunology, before completing a doctorate in microbiology at Washington State University in 1988. He has often traced his intellectual temperament back to childhood, when his mother, a fourth-grade teacher, encouraged curiosity as a habit rather than a slogan. That early emphasis on asking how people learn would become the through line of his work. ((https://johnmedina.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Full-JJM-Resume.pdf?utm_source=openai))
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— Harvard Business Review
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— Douglas Stone
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— Washington Post
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— Publishers Weekly
"Dr. Medina hits the nail on the head with Brain Rules for Baby"
— Nina L. Shapiro, MD
"John Medina's new book, BRAIN RULES, dissects the workings of the brain in plain English"
— USA Today
"Medina cites only research that has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and that has been successfully replicated"
— Psychiatric Times
"John Medina uses a very readable and refreshing style to present parenting strategies in the context of factual scientific information"
— Jadene Wong, MD
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