Hey everybody Kevin Rose here.

Welcome back to another episode of the Kevin Rose show.

We are back in production. I took a couple weeks off and I'm going to resume my normal

cadence of a couple of guests per month. This is a fun episode. I'm really excited to bring it to you because

it really hits on something that I am super curious about, which is how to enhance the human brain and how to

improve cognition and improve attention. I am a very very distractible person.

I'm a kind of 30 tab type of person.

I click on my Gmail tab and realize that I hadn't sent an email. I hadn't

clicked the send button because I got it distracted on to something else. So its attention and distraction are things that I've

wanted to work on. Now Adam Gazali, who is an MD, PhD at UCSF, has been a friend of mine for, g gosh coming up on 10 or so years now and it has been really

awesome to watch his career since I've known him because you know he was always a great

scientist and he's published just a ton of papers I think he has over 130 scientific papers that he's authored now but he's really started to explode and he started to appear all over the place in terms of like media and the recognition

that he's getting for the work that he's doing.

So you know he's been on the New York Times Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, the New Yorker, CNN,

NBC Nightly News, like all over the place. And he also recently authored, I guess it's

been a little over a year, or maybe a year and a half ago a book called the

distracted mind and the reason he's getting all this recognition is because he

is doing some amazing work in creating these therapeutic video games.

And when I first think of video games

and kind of brain training, you think of like,

you know, those Nintendo games that came out

a decade or more ago. And then, of course, there's all kinds of like online brain training games and apps now

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