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What Andrew Huberman says about consciousness

Everything Andrew Huberman and guests said about consciousness across 39 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

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Keltner claims just one minute of awe a day reduced long COVID symptoms in patients.
00:33:49Dr. Dacher Keltner · Huberman Lab · Apr 2026
His dream awe experiment was to have participants meet 7'2" Shaquille O'Neal in person, but it couldn't be done.
00:23:25Dr. Dacher Keltner · Huberman Lab · Apr 2026
A symphony conductor told Keltner that musical awe is fundamentally 'all about time' and what it does to our sense of time.
00:40:01Dr. Dacher Keltner · Huberman Lab · Apr 2026
A Grateful Dead documentary names cocaine as what killed the collective spirit of music, because 'it's the me drug.'
01:08:33Dr. Dacher Keltner · Huberman Lab · Apr 2026
Keltner says he was advising Facebook when algorithms 'making people hate each other' were put in place.
01:23:39Dr. Dacher Keltner · Huberman Lab · Apr 2026
Huberman's contrarian theory: social media is the antithesis of awe because it crams all space-time into a tiny aperture.
01:33:35Dr. Dacher Keltner · Huberman Lab · Apr 2026
Huberman asks Keltner the only guest he's ever asked whether he believes in life after death; Keltner says yes.
02:14:01Dr. Dacher Keltner · Huberman Lab · Apr 2026
Keltner describes a transcendent experience the night his brother died of colon cancer that shifted him from agnostic to believing.
02:14:33Dr. Dacher Keltner · Huberman Lab · Apr 2026
Alan Cowen used AI to code 2 million videos across 144 cultures, finding ~75% cross-cultural overlap in facial expressions.
00:07:54Dr. Dacher Keltner · Huberman Lab · Apr 2026
The field has expanded from Ekman's 6 basic emotions to roughly 20 distinct facial-expression states.
00:06:21Dr. Dacher Keltner · Huberman Lab · Apr 2026
A UCSF study had people 75+ take a weekly 'awe walk' for 8 weeks, yielding more awe, more kindness, and less physical pain.
00:29:08Dr. Dacher Keltner · Huberman Lab · Apr 2026
Belonging to social community is linked to about a 10-year gain in life expectancy (meta-analysis of 350,000 people).
01:31:30Dr. Dacher Keltner · Huberman Lab · Apr 2026
U.S. farmers markets went from near-nonexistent in the '90s to about 9,000 today, valued largely for community.
01:25:11Dr. Dacher Keltner · Huberman Lab · Apr 2026
Roughly 30% of meals in the U.S. are now eaten alone; picnics are down by half and church attendance has fallen to ~55%.
01:49:04Dr. Dacher Keltner · Huberman Lab · Apr 2026
In Keltner's fraternity study, the more men got embarrassed while teasing, the more they liked each other.
01:38:45Dr. Dacher Keltner · Huberman Lab · Apr 2026
Many drugs (aspirin, cocaine, kratom) are plant alkaloids that pharma companies bioprospect, isolate, and synthesize.
02:00:29Dr. Dacher Keltner · Huberman Lab · Apr 2026
Robin Carhart-Harris's data show no benefit from microdosing on major depression versus two guided psilocybin sessions.
02:01:00Dr. Dacher Keltner · Huberman Lab · Apr 2026
Joe Strummer ran the Paris Marathon reportedly while smoking and with no training, and hosted lifelong campfires in Manhattan.
02:09:19Dr. Dacher Keltner · Huberman Lab · Apr 2026
Huberman champions NSDR (non-sleep deep rest), citing University of Copenhagen studies showing it replenishes brain dopamine.
00:04:45Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Describes a dose-dependent placebo effect study where being TOLD you got a higher nicotine dose changed cognition and measured brain activity even at zero dose.
00:07:52Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Admits he took LSD and psilocybin 'all too young,' calls them bad experiences, and says he does not recommend them.
00:20:24Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Reveals he participated in two clinical trials of high-dose psilocybin (over two grams, taken twice with therapist support).
00:21:59Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Explains the famous 'MDMA puts holes in your brain' paper was retracted because researchers accidentally dosed subjects with methamphetamine.
00:27:12Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
States that ketamine and the demonized drug PCP are the same compound.
00:30:19Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Discloses the podcast funds human-only studies of compounds like DMT (Robin Carhart-Harris's lab) and an eating-disorders lab at Columbia.
00:32:52Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Keep naps shorter than 90 minutes so they don't disrupt nighttime sleep; skip them entirely if they do.
00:04:13Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
In nicotine cognition studies, what subjects believed they were dosed with changed both performance and recorded brain activity.
00:09:54Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Optimal learning difficulty is roughly 85% correct trials and 15% errors.
00:17:12Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
The agitation and frustration of failing is the neurochemical stimulus for neuroplasticity; the actual rewiring happens during sleep and rest.
00:18:13Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Most psychedelic trials use psilocybin over LSD partly because an LSD trip is far longer than a clinician's workday; ibogaine runs about 22 hours.
00:23:00Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Kentucky directed $40 million of its opioid settlement toward ibogaine trials.
00:24:05Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
MDMA-assisted therapy shows up to 60-67% remission of PTSD with proper dosing and support.
00:27:43Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
The best low-cost way to support the gut-brain axis is one to four daily servings of low-sugar fermented foods like kimchi, sauerkraut, or kefir.
00:38:00Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Sleep regularity matters: aim to keep bedtime within plus or minus one hour, about five nights a week.
00:41:39Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Chinese focus-training studies improve attention by having people fixate on a visual target for one to three minutes before working.
00:45:46Live audience Q&A (no single guest) · Huberman Lab · May 2024
Huberman paraphrases Anna Lembke's pleasure-pain balance, arguing chasing pleasure tips the balance toward pain, craving, and eventually anhedonia and depression.
00:01:35Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2021
He shares an anonymized real case of a 21-year-old man whose depression is thought to stem from overindulgence in video games and other highly dopaminergic activities.
00:05:18Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2021
EPA omega-3 fatty acids at roughly 1000 mg can match SSRIs at relieving depressive symptoms and can lower the effective SSRI dose.
00:59:27Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2021
Creatine supplementation, normally a fitness aid, is shown in double-blind studies to improve mood and major depression via the forebrain phosphocreatine system.
01:11:41Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2021
Ketamine and PCP, both drugs of abuse, are being used in clinics to treat depression by blocking the NMDA receptor and inducing neuroplasticity.
01:20:15Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2021
A 2021 JAMA Psychiatry trial found psilocybin-assisted therapy relieved depression in 50-70% of subjects, often after just one or two doses.
01:36:34Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2021
Psilocybin's antidepressant benefit does not depend on the subjective content of the trip; different experiences still produce relief.
01:43:58Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2021
The ketogenic diet can relieve depression, especially in treatment-refractory patients, by increasing GABA transmission in the brain.
01:47:39Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2021
Dopamine is the molecule of craving, motivation, and drive, not the molecule of reward.
00:03:09Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2021
Major depression affects 5% of the population and is the number four cause of disability.
00:14:46Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2021
Early-morning waking around 3-5 AM with inability to fall back asleep despite exhaustion is a common sign of major depression.
00:22:39Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2021
A 9 PM peak in cortisol is one of the physiological signatures of depressive states.
00:25:49Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2021
About 20% of people with major depression have low thyroid hormone.
00:42:34Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2021
Carriers of the 5HTTLPR serotonin transporter polymorphism need far fewer bouts of stress to lapse into depression.
00:47:18Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2021
For every gram of EPA ingested, there is roughly a 9% improvement in cardiovascular health.
01:02:09Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2021
Tryptophan from food converts to serotonin, but inflammation diverts it down a neurotoxic pathway producing quinolinic acid.
01:03:46Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2021
The ketogenic diet was originally developed as a medical treatment for pediatric epilepsy, not weight loss.
01:49:48Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2021
Eating two to four servings of fermented foods daily tunes the gut microbiome and lowers inflammatory cytokines (Sonnenberg Lab, Cell).
01:58:48Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Aug 2021
Lembke says it is the deviation from a tonic dopamine baseline, not hits in a vacuum, that matters.
00:01:38Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Calls pleasure and pain being co-located in the brain one of the most significant neuroscience findings of the last 75 years.
00:07:32Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Explains the pain response overshoots, pushing pain higher than the original pleasure.
00:10:13Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
States it takes about 30 days of abstinence to reset the brain's reward pathways.
00:12:55Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Reveals people often relapse when things are going well, as success removes the hypervigilance keeping use in check.
00:18:53Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Argues psychedelic-assisted therapy is a 'dopamine feast,' not a fast, and should violate dopamine biology.
00:24:42Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Declares social media really is a drug, deliberately engineered to be one.
00:29:35Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Dopamine is linked to both reward and movement, because early humans had to move to seek food and water.
00:00:30Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
People who are depressed may have lower tonic baseline levels of dopamine.
00:02:09Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Impulsivity is a key risk factor for addiction, but may be a trait that was advantageous in other environments.
00:04:18Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Recovery typically feels worse for the first two weeks, with the 'sun coming out' in week three.
00:13:29Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Even just thinking about a trigger releases a mini dopamine spike followed by a mini deficit, which is craving.
00:19:26Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Truth-telling may strengthen prefrontal cortex connections to the limbic and reward brain.
00:22:33Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Honest, intimate connections with others themselves create dopamine.
00:23:38Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Casual self-directed microdosing for a 'spiritual awakening' almost never works out well.
00:28:28Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Constant phone-checking may be eroding our ability to sustain a single thought, the source of creativity.
00:31:12Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
Dr. Lembke is not on social media, staying true to her own ideology.
00:31:12Dr. Anna Lembke · Huberman Lab · Jun 2025
A citizen-science microdosing study found microdosing did not compellingly beat placebo; belief that you got a dose drove most of the effect.
00:23:16Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Increased global brain connectivity from psilocybin persists after the trip, seen the next day and three weeks later, correlating with symptom improvement.
01:00:34Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Carhart-Harris reports over 70% of treatment-resistant depression patients get relief, far above typical antidepressants.
01:14:15Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
A single 25mg psilocybin session produced measurable anatomical brain changes (white matter tract integrity) resembling a younger, developing brain.
01:24:48Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Pre-trial expectancy predicted response to escitalopram but NOT to psilocybin, undercutting the idea that psychedelic therapy is just a placebo effect.
01:39:36Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Most treatment-resistant depression patients eventually relapse, and they cannot legally repeat the treatment that worked, which he calls 'a sick joke.'
02:11:13Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
MDMA therapy for PTSD is years ahead of psilocybin; MAPS completed two phase III trials with ~67% remission, with approval possibly this year.
02:23:22Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
The word 'psychedelic' was coined by Humphry Osmond, who beat Aldous Huxley's term, with the ditty 'to fathom hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic.'
00:07:48Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Roughly 1 gram of magic mushrooms contains about 10 milligrams of psilocybin (~1% by mass).
00:27:27Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Psychedelic therapy uses eye masks and lyric-free music; the music's emotional role has never been properly tested despite being a staple of every successful trial.
00:31:10Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
The guiding mantra 'trust, let go, be open' is attributed to Bill Richards at Johns Hopkins.
00:39:33Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
In healthy-volunteer trials, a 1mg psilocybin dose is used as a placebo because subjects feel nothing and EEG shows no change.
01:08:01Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Anorexia nervosa is the most deadly of all psychiatric illnesses; an ongoing psilocybin trial showed improved weight at long follow-up.
01:11:08Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
DMT is described as a 'rocket ship'; it is an order of magnitude less potent than psilocybin but produces wilder experiences at standard doses.
01:58:07Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
A study found cocaine inflates the ego while psychedelics dissolve it, cleanly separating the two drug classes on opposite axes.
02:07:31Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Fentanyl lacing now shows up in street MDMA and psychedelics, a serious danger for those using uncertain sources.
02:14:22Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Carhart-Harris argues psychiatric drugs haven't fundamentally improved since the 1950s, making psychedelic therapy a true paradigm shift.
02:31:16Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris · Huberman Lab · May 2023
Harris argues meditation's real purpose is not stress relief or focus but discovering that the self is an illusion that was never actually there.
00:16:46Sam Harris · Huberman Lab · Jan 2023
Claims that if you rewound the brain to its exact prior state, you'd produce the identical thought a trillion times over, so free will makes no sense.
00:41:57Sam Harris · Huberman Lab · Jan 2023
Reveals the illusion of self and the illusion of free will are 'opposite sides of the same coin.'
01:54:41Sam Harris · Huberman Lab · Jan 2023
Admits psychedelics, starting with MDMA, were indispensable; without them he'd likely have bounced off meditation entirely as a hard-headed skeptic.
03:09:56Sam Harris · Huberman Lab · Jan 2023
Discloses he tried and failed to teach Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett to meditate, ambushing Dawkins with a guided meditation on his own podcast.
03:10:59Sam Harris · Huberman Lab · Jan 2023
Reveals he deleted his 12-year Twitter account impulsively on Thanksgiving Day, calling it 'a suicide of that self.'
04:05:54Sam Harris · Huberman Lab · Jan 2023
Cal Newport encouraged Harris to delete Twitter on a podcast recorded the day before he actually deleted it.
04:13:14Sam Harris · Huberman Lab · Jan 2023
We perform a visual saccade about three times a second, briefly going blind each time without ever noticing it.
00:28:53Sam Harris · Huberman Lab · Jan 2023
Each eye compensates for the other's blind spot; with one eye closed, someone in a crowd is literally missing a head and you don't notice.
00:42:03Sam Harris · Huberman Lab · Jan 2023
Harris spent roughly a year on silent retreat in week-to-three-month increments, meditating 12 to 18 hours a day.
00:51:38Sam Harris · Huberman Lab · Jan 2023
Paul Bloom's experiments show infants as young as six months prefer 'good' cooperator puppets over 'bad' defector puppets.
01:09:59Sam Harris · Huberman Lab · Jan 2023
In Vipassana, attention can break the felt sensation of a 'hand' into a diaphanous cloud of fleeting sensations until the hand-concept disappears.
01:30:13Sam Harris · Huberman Lab · Jan 2023
On LSD above Muir Woods, Harris and friends were so absorbed by an ordinary 20-foot oak tree it consumed six hours of their attention.
03:33:39Sam Harris · Huberman Lab · Jan 2023
Harris notes people who spend 10 years alone in a cave can emerge 'beaming with compassion and joy' rather than psychotic.
03:45:49Sam Harris · Huberman Lab · Jan 2023
Deadlifting a near-failure rep feels physiologically like a medical emergency, yet the mental frame makes it net-positive.
03:51:37Sam Harris · Huberman Lab · Jan 2023
Being a political centrist who criticizes both left and right meant Harris got hate from both sides with no tribe reflexively defending him.
04:01:04Sam Harris · Huberman Lab · Jan 2023
Neuromodulator neurons (norepinephrine, acetylcholine, serotonin) fire on novelty then quickly habituate, so the brain is always hunting the next informative thing.
00:23:07Dr. Michael Kilgard · Huberman Lab · Aug 2025
Passively exposing babies to foreign-language sounds via screens does almost nothing because the brain already knows 'that's a TV' and learning needs interaction.
00:34:11Dr. Michael Kilgard · Huberman Lab · Aug 2025
Plasticity follows a four-factor learning rule: millisecond pre/post spike timing plus a roughly two-second window of neuromodulator arrival decides strengthen, weaken, or forget.
00:55:18Dr. Michael Kilgard · Huberman Lab · Aug 2025
Kilgard's vagus nerve stimulator works by tricking the brain into thinking you're having a heart attack, releasing norepinephrine, acetylcholine, and serotonin (but not dopamine).
01:39:23Dr. Michael Kilgard · Huberman Lab · Aug 2025
FDA approved vagus nerve stimulation for ischemic stroke; in a Lancet trial patients restored hand function in just 18 days.
01:43:04Dr. Michael Kilgard · Huberman Lab · Aug 2025
SSRIs likely don't work by raising low serotonin but by inducing plasticity; depression was never proven to be a serotonin deficiency.
02:01:30Dr. Michael Kilgard · Huberman Lab · Aug 2025
A pinky-nail-sized vagus stimulator chip can be implanted in a roughly 35-minute outpatient procedure, then activated wirelessly via a neck coil like phone charging.
02:14:28Dr. Michael Kilgard · Huberman Lab · Aug 2025
Tinnitus is self-amplified by paying attention to it; chronic tinnitus affects 10-20% of people and is the number one military disability, costing about a billion dollars a year.
02:25:27Dr. Michael Kilgard · Huberman Lab · Aug 2025
The brain makes trillions of new connection decisions every second, deciding which synapses to strengthen, weaken, or leave alone.
00:04:43Dr. Michael Kilgard · Huberman Lab · Aug 2025
Each person learns roughly 100,000 words just from being in an environment, without being taught each one.
00:08:22Dr. Michael Kilgard · Huberman Lab · Aug 2025
ChatGPT has about 540 billion weights while the human brain has roughly 150 trillion synapses, making each person about 500 times larger in scale yet powered by a hamburger's worth of energy.
00:36:16Dr. Michael Kilgard · Huberman Lab · Aug 2025
Donald Hebb's 1949 'fire together, wire together' was only half right; neurons that fire slightly late get weakened (long-term depression), figured out only about 25 years ago.
00:55:52Dr. Michael Kilgard · Huberman Lab · Aug 2025
Plasticity depends on the precise timing of a transient neuromodulator release, not on how much is present.
01:29:25Dr. Michael Kilgard · Huberman Lab · Aug 2025
Cognitive behavioral therapists now claim near 100% cure rates for severe fear of heights, and standard therapy cures about 40% of PTSD cases (about 20% in military populations).
01:36:12Dr. Michael Kilgard · Huberman Lab · Aug 2025
Whether you stimulate acetylcholine, norepinephrine, serotonin, or dopamine, you get the same effect: more plasticity from fewer trials, compressing weeks of learning into days.
01:51:32Dr. Michael Kilgard · Huberman Lab · Aug 2025
A 1,500-person trial gave stroke patients Prozac; it didn't improve hand function and caused more hip fractures because serotonin is involved in bone formation.
02:04:37Dr. Michael Kilgard · Huberman Lab · Aug 2025
The likely future of treatment is a 'tripartite' approach: devices plus targeted training plus drugs, tuned to each individual.
02:43:50Dr. Michael Kilgard · Huberman Lab · Aug 2025
An inverted-U / Goldilocks effect governs neuromodulators: a little serotonin or norepinephrine enhances memory, but too much degrades it.
02:56:32Dr. Michael Kilgard · Huberman Lab · Aug 2025
Claims post-cold-exposure dopamine rises 100-200% and stays elevated for many hours, acting as a true antidepressant.
00:16:43Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2022
Frames the prefrontal cortex as a 'coach' that loses control to the rest of the brain ('the players') under high stress.
00:21:30Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2022
Says you can 'cheat your own neurochemistry' by reframing a failure as a win to tap the dopamine system.
00:22:02Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2022
Explains gut microbiota make chemicals that become serotonin and dopamine in the brain, not gut serotonin itself.
00:33:10Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2022
Cites data that about 2/3 of people achieve lasting relief from a single guided macro-dose psilocybin session.
00:58:22Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2022
Reports that, except for caffeine, psilocybin sits at the bottom of perceived individual and societal risk among compounds.
00:59:26Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2022
A roughly 13-minute daily breathing meditation (Wendy Suzuki's lab) significantly improves focus.
00:05:12Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2022
The brain has no sensory neurons, which is why neurosurgery can be done on awake patients without anesthetic there.
00:08:18Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2022
EMDR works best for single-event traumas; side-to-side eye movements potently quiet the amygdala.
00:24:42Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2022
The inside of your mouth heals without a scar, attributed to a healthy gut and oral microbiome.
00:30:33Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2022
Palmer cooling (cooling palms, soles, or upper face) can dramatically increase endurance and exercise output.
00:34:44Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2022
Feynman picked locks and cracked safes at Los Alamos, bongo-drummed naked on Caltech's roof, and wrote in strip clubs.
00:40:26Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2022
Sauna releases dynorphin (an appetite suppressant), explaining why hunger can disappear after heat exposure.
01:01:01Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2022
Sauna done once weekly as four 20-minute sessions spaced five minutes apart yields large growth hormone increases.
01:02:01Andrew Huberman · Huberman Lab · Nov 2022
Channelrhodopsins were recently used to restore light perception to a fully blind human patient for the first time.
00:01:32Karl Deisseroth · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
Deisseroth's colleague Botond Roska put channelrhodopsins into a blind patient's eyes and conferred new light sensitivity that wasn't there before.
00:39:21Karl Deisseroth · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
Vagus nerve stimulation for depression was chosen largely because the nerve is simply accessible, not because of a precise hypothesis.
00:49:53Karl Deisseroth · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
Deisseroth routinely uses a radio-frequency controller in clinic to dial up a patient's vagus nerve stimulation in real time.
00:58:14Karl Deisseroth · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021
The most effective antipsychotic, clozapine, has terrible side effects yet works when nothing else does.
01:08:20Karl Deisseroth · Huberman Lab · Jun 2021

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