Hello & thanks for stopping by. If you have access to your genetic information you may be wondering, “What the heck do all these A’s, G’s, T’s & C’s mean? What can I do with this information?“
Um … not much? Well, I’m really not sure, but am having fun exploring this question. I spent some years as a genetic scientist (my street cred) studying molecular biology, evolution and the development of the human attention system (my publications) before I became a stay-at-home dad raising my two children & writing for fun. Since most of your genome sequence has very little medically predictive value at the moment, I’ve taken a more personal and light-hearted view of its utility … acknowledging that our genome is mostly junk and makes only a partial contribution to the development of our hopelessly irrational, skewed, biased, tangled & cloudy minds. I guess, what I’ve been “doing” with my genome information, is just using it as a starting point to explore my own self, my thought processes and my evolutionary history. So, herein lie some personal musings on genetics, epigenetics, the biology of the brain, developmental psychology, mental health, mind-body science and inward-looking practices such as yoga and meditation. Science … self-awareness … self-acceptance … just one dude gettin’ to know himself.
My gnarly lookin’ brain
John,
I just stumbled across this website and fell in love with it. Then I discovered it was YOUR website
How are you doing? What are you doing these days? I’m faculty at Berkeley and I know for a fact that you know and have worked with Sonia Bishop.
I hope all is well and that life with wife and kiddies is fabulous!
Darlene