The Huberman Lab Podcast discusses neuroscience: how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health. We also discuss existing and emerging tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. His laboratory studies neural regeneration, neuroplasticity, and brain states such as stress, focus, fear, and optimal performance. For more than 20 years, Dr. Huberman has consistently published original research findings and review articles in top-level peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Science, Cell, Neuron, and Current Biology. He is a regular member of several National Institutes of Health review panels and a Fellow of the McKnight Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Dr. Huberman regularly consults for technology development companies, professional athletic organizations, and various units of U.S. and Canadian Special Operations.
Essentials: How Your Nervous System Works & Changes
This is the first episode of Huberman Lab Essentials — short episodes (approximately 30 minutes) focused on essential science and protocol takeaways from past Huberman Lab episodes.
This Essentials episode introduces how the nervous system creates sensations, perceptions, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors, as well as how we can change our nervous system — a phenomenon known as neuroplasticity.
Essentials will be released every Thursday, and our full-length episodes will still be released every Monday.
Access the show notes for this episode at hubermanlab.com.
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Timestamps
00:00:00 Introduction to Huberman Lab Essentials & the Nervous System
00:02:23 Understanding Sensation & Perception
00:04:56 Emotions & Neuromodulators
00:07:42 Thoughts & Deliberate Actions
00:08:22 Sponsor: AG1
00:09:54 Deliberate Processing & Neuroplasticity
00:15:59 The Mechanisms of Neuroplasticity
00:20:56 Sponsor: David
00:22:13 The Importance of Sleep & Rest
00:27:12 Understanding the Autonomic Nervous System
00:36:49 Leveraging Ultradian Rhythms