0:00 Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials, where we revisit past episodes for the most potent and actionable science-based tools for mental health, physical health, and performance. I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. And now for my discussion with Dr. Matthew MacDougall. Dr. MacDougall, welcome. >> Good to be here. Just to kick things off as a neurosurgeon and as a neuroscientist, could you share with us
0:30 your vision of the brain as an organ as it relates to what's possible there? Surgeons tend to view the world a little bit differently than most because they like to fix and they like to mend and in your case have the potential to add things into the brain that don't exist there already. So, how do you think about and conceptualize the brain as an organ? And what do you think is really possible with the brain that most of us don't already probably think about? >> The brain really is a collection of functional modules pinned together, duct
1:03 taped together in this bone box attached to your head. And sometimes you see very interesting failure modes. So, one of the most uh memorable patients I ever had was very early on in my training. I was down at UC San Diego and saw um a very young guy who had just been in a car accident. We had operated on him and you know, as is so often the case in neurosurgery, we had saved his life potentially at the cost of quality of life. uh when he woke from surgery with
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