Michael Jacob

Michael Jacob, MD PhD is a neurobiologist and psychiatrist whose interdisciplinary work aims to develop new perspectives on how experience comes to life and how it unravels in mental illness. He is an Assistant Professor at UCSF, Director of the Psychosis and Metabolic Mental Health Clinics at the San Francisco VA, and Researcher with the non-profit, Human Energy. He leads an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Research Group to foster collaborative studies of the brain, drawing from the humanities, semiotic and dynamical systems theories. His current experimental work at the Brain Imaging and EEG Lab (BIEEGL) at UCSF/SFVA employs multimodal neuroimaging methods to investigate reciprocal interactions between neural and metabolic signals. He is particularly interested in the implications of neuroscientific models and metaphors in society, including the biology of collective consciousness and the concept of the noosphere.