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: Understanding & Controlling Aggression
In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, I explain the neural circuits that activate and control aggressive states and behaviors. I discuss how hormones, genes and environmental factors such as day length can shift our aggressive tendencies. I also share science-based tools for modulating aggression, including sunlight exposure, heat therapy and supplementation with ashwagandha or acetyl-L-carnitine.
Read the episode show notes at hubermanlab.com.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) Aggression, Types of Aggression
(00:01:43) Context, Aggression vs Sadness
(00:03:11) Hydraulic Pressure Model of Aggression
(00:06:40) Sponsor: LMNT
(00:08:12) Brain Areas for Aggression, Ventromedial Hypothalamus
(00:15:26) Biting, Neural Circuits of Physical Aggression
(00:17:52) Sponsor: Eight Sleep
(00:19:09) Estrogen & Aggression, Testosterone & Competitiveness
(00:22:37) Seasonality, Sunlight, Melatonin & Aggression
(00:24:50) Cortisol, Serotonin & Aggression
(00:26:35) Tool: Reduce Cortisol with Sunlight & Sauna; Ashwagandha
(00:30:39) Sponsor: AG1
(00:31:58) Irritability, Aggression & Genetics; Seasonality
(00:34:49) Tool: ADHD, Acetyl-L Carnitine & Aggressive Behavior
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