Jonah Lehrer

Person · Open Library

Works

18

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1928-04-09

Active to

2025-07-26

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

305

Total plays

1,951

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,997x

2. Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 6,188x

3. The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues

   · 2020 · cited 5,343x

4. Practical Bayesian model evaluation using leave-one-out cross-validation and WAIC

   · 2016 · cited 4,590x

5. Host–microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease

   · 2012 · cited 4,298x

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Quotes

• “The story of the brain's separation from the body begin with Rene Descartes. The most influential philosopher of the seventeenth century, Descartes divided being into two distinct substances: a holy soul and a mortal carcass. The soul was the source of reason, science, and everything nice. Our flesh, on the other hand, was "clock-like," just a machine that bleeds. With this schism, Descartes condemned the body to a life of subservience, a power plant for the brain's light bulbs.”
• “Neuroscience has contributed so much in just a few decades to how we think about human nature and how we know ourselves.”
• “As much as I loved the ideas, I excelled at experimental failure, I found new ways to make experiments not work. I would mess up PCRs, add the wrong buffers, northerns, westerns, southerns. I would make them not work in quite ingenious ways, and I realized slowly, over the course of those years, that the secret to being a great scientist is to love the manual labor of it.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Jonah

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Los Angeles

Occupation

scientist

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Rhodes Scholarship

Image

Jonah Lehrer Knight Foundation speech.jpg

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