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How Your Brain Works & Changes

How Your Brain Works & Changes on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2021–2023.

Andrew Huberman

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Andrew Huberman introduces how the nervous system produces sensation, emotion and behavior, and how neuroplasticity lets us change it. It covers neurons, synapses, brain chemicals and the rhythms governing focus, learning and sleep.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it as a foundational neuroscience primer, with some commenters crediting it for practical changes to learning and sleep.

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2021–2023
“feeling overwhelmed and the frustration of learning are necessary to activate the neuro-chemical processes needed to change our programming”
— dmfdmf, May 2021, in “Ask HN: What are your favorite techniques for overcoming the “pain” of learning?”

What HN commenters said

4 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

tylerwhippleOct 2021Strongly recommends

If anyone is struggling with sleep, I highly recommend episode 1-3 of the Huberman Lab podcast ( ▶ this video ), it has literally changed my life. Dr. Huberman is a Neurobiologist at Stanford and explains the science of sleep vs just telling you to not look at bright screens at night. I struggled with sleeping for 20+ years, now I easily wake up early. The biggest game changer: Sunlight in your eyes within 30 minutes of waking up. Try morning walks for 1 week (without sunglasses) and your life will be changed.

in “Clinical trial shows that the use of Vitamin D supplement improves sleep quality” · View on HN

dmfdmfMay 2021Recommends

Check out Dr. Andrew Huberman's podcast #1 on YT. "How Your Nervous System Works & Changes" He argues that feeling overwhelmed and the frustration of learning are necessary to activate the neuro-chemical processes needed to change our programming. Interpreting this emotional state as "doubt" is itself a mental program that can be changed when you realize that these neuro-chemical processess are necessary and normal. Also, get good sleep (which he covers too). ▶ this video

in “Ask HN: What are your favorite techniques for overcoming the “pain” of learning?” · View on HN

hollerithNov 2023Cites it

I probably learned that fact from an episode of neuroscientist Andrew Huberman's podcast, and it is more likely than not that I learned it from episode one: ▶ this video

in “Bacteria store memories and pass them on for generations” · View on HN

overviewOct 2021Cites it

I haven’t read the article, but the title irrefutably contradicts a very interesting understanding of multitasking shared by Dr. Andrew Huberman on the Huberman Lab podcast. Maybe by being provocative and choosing an absolute position on the matter, the author was hoping to attract readers. For those interested in the explanation given by Huberman, skip to the section titled “Multi-Tasking Is Real” found in the description of the video [0]. [0] ▶ this video

in “Multitasking Doesn't Work” · View on HN

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Neuroscience & the brainFitness, sleep & longevityneuroplasticitysleepfocushuberman labbrain