Adam Gazzaley: How Neuroscience is Changing The World of Medicine

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Chase Jarvis

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🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

I've had Adam Gazzaley on the show before. He's an incredibly blended human who is a neuroscientist, speaker, entrepreneur, photographer, author, he's even an inventor. He's revolutionizing how we use technology for brain optimization. His work is paving the way forward when it comes to using technology to improve and retrain how we use our brains. This includes treating ADHD and other mental health and cognitive impairments.

Adam has a creative industrious side that works with his academic side. He's an MD PhD., and a full-time professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). His research lab at the university is the Neuroscape center. This is where his groundbreaking work takes place. The center engages in technology creation and scientific research to better assess and optimize the brain function of healthy and impaired people. The work they do is at the intersection of technology and neuroscience. This is how it goes beyond the lab into people's lives.

Adam is an entrepreneur and moves with his pursuits. He's co-founder, board member, and science advisor for a company called Akili. In this episode, we’ll hear more about what the company is doing but think of prescribed video games as medicine! Akili is using technology to help people with cognitive impairment and to change the way medicine is designed and delivered.

In today’s episode we’re talking about:

11:50 - Thinking Beyond the Pill for Attention Deficit

24:26 - Changing the Paradigm of Medicine

28:12 - How Attention Impacts our Experience

32:17 - Ancient Brains in a High Tech World

55:13 - Doing The Work Between Our Ears

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Attention is fundamental to everything that our brain does.
0:05.9	And there's so many different types of attention.
0:08.6	I could easily talk an hour about attention, all the different times top down and bottom up,
0:14.5	sustained attention, selective attention.
0:17.2	And it's just infinitely fascinating.
0:21.2	That was a little audio snippet from my dear friend Adam Ghazali.
0:25.8	Now, Adam is a previous guest in the show, and it's been five years, though.
0:32.0	And in that five years, a bunch of remarkable stuff has happened.
0:36.9	Adam is a neuroscientist. He's an author,
0:40.1	a photographer, and essentially he's the inventor of an amazing new technology. The first ever
0:46.2	FDA approved video game as medicine. Now, if you're not a video gamer or you're not
0:53.5	interested in medicines, don't, don't
0:55.6	hang up on us here because what he also is is one of the most articulate and leading scientists in
1:03.9	the space of neuroplasticity, which is the brain's ability to change and adapt and grow, attention, where we place our attention, whether you have attention deficit or you're seeking to get deeper into something, and specifically medicine for the mind.
1:25.7	So he is so genuine human and so adroit in explaining this stuff
1:33.3	that today's episode is super dense, but in a really good way. Like you just, you feel like you
1:38.3	just, I don't know, went for an amazing jog, had some good exercise, and the conversation
1:46.0	that we have is wide-ranging. We do focus on a couple of buckets, again, this bucket of attention,
1:51.9	which is something I'm obsessed with because, you know, attention is one of the few things we actually
1:55.5	have in this world. His specific medicine around video games as a literal prescribable thing and what the future of
2:04.4	medicine looks like. And then, of course, the brain's ability to learn and adapt, which is huge
2:09.8	and core to the things that our community is interested in, in, you know, self-improvement and,
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