Assistant Professor at UCSF, Psychiatrist at the SFVA Medical Center, and Researcher at Human Energy
Michael Jacob, MD, PhD, is a neurobiologist and psychiatrist whose work weaves interdisciplinary threads to understand how experience comes to life in biology, the mind, and the noosphere. He is an Assistant Professor at UCSF, Director of the Psychosis and Metabolic Mental Health Clinics at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and researcher with Human Energy. His work employs theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches, including neurophysiology and the neuroimaging of brain metabolism. He leads an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Research Group to foster collaborative studies of the brain and society, drawing from the humanities, semiotic, and dynamical systems theories. Michael is particularly interested in experiential meaning-making and in moving from computational frameworks of the brain and noosphere, to the living heart of biological systems. As both a scientist and a clinician, he guides individuals to find their calling in life and the noosphere, an approach that relies as much on narrativity, music, and poetry, as it does on the science of life.
