Andrew, how are you? What's happening man? Doing great. Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you. Really excited to talk to you about this. Just sort of for an

introduction, tell people what you do. So I'm a neuroscientist. I'm meaning I'm a

professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology, Stanford School of Medicine. So I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology Stanford School Medicine so I run a laboratory I teach a little bit I teach

Neuroanatomy to medical students

But mainly my lab does research so I've got students and postdocs and we're trying to figure out

the answers to two problems. The first problem is how to regenerate the damaged

nervous system in particular the connections between the eye and the brain to

restore vision to the blind.

So that's a big mission of ours.

And to prevent vision loss in people that are losing their vision.

And the other thing that we're doing is we're focusing a lot on stress

and other states of mind.

So I'm obsessed with the idea that all our states of mind

come from the brain and the body.

And we're trying to figure out what happens in the brain and body

when we're stressed and how to control it. What happens in the brain and body when we're stressed and how to control it.

What happens in the brain and body when we are creative and how to control it?

And essentially for all states of mind, but rather than try and tackle the really high level stuff like flow and

states of awe, we're really focused on these states of stress and things like

focus and the ability to think clearly and do certain things

athletically or cognitively because first of all there's a lot of

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