Essentials: How Your Brain 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

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