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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