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John Medina

Дата рождения: January 19, 1956 – Seattle, Washington, United States

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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.

Биография и Путь Автора

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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Цитаты

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Exercise boosts brain power
-Brain Rules
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The human brain evolved, too
-Brain Rules
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The brain is not capable of multi-tasking
-Brain Rules
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Sleep well, think well
-Brain Rules
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Stressed brains don’t learn the same way
-Brain Rules
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Vision trumps all other senses
-Brain Rules
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A calm mom builds a better brain
-Brain Rules for Baby
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Babies are born moral. You shape the rest
-Brain Rules for Baby
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Be a friend to others, and let others be a friend to you
-Brain Rules for Aging Well
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Never retire, and be sure to reminisce
-Brain Rules for Aging Well

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"John Medina is one who does the latter in exemplary fashion"

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Harvard Business Review

"Medina has taken what may be the most complex thing we know -- the human mind -- and explained it clearly"

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"Medina's reporting and his insights challenge and expand the mind"

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

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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"

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