Dr. David Linden: Life, Death & the Neuroscience of Your Unique Experience
Huberman Lab
Scicomm Media
4.8 • 26.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 157 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and |
| 0:12.4 | Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. Today my guest is Dr. David Linden. |
| 0:17.2 | Dr. David Linden is a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His laboratory has studied |
| 0:22.8 | neuroplasticity, that is, how connections in the brain change in response to experience. |
| 0:28.2 | Much of that work focused on a structure called the cerebellum, |
| 0:31.6 | which is also sometimes referred to as the mini-brain, because it looks like a mini-brain in the bottom and back of the human brain, |
| 0:38.3 | and it's responsible for an enormous number of basic functions that we use in everyday life, including our |
| 0:43.6 | motor behavior. That is our ability to walk and talk, but also dance, play instruments, and it's responsible for an enormous number of basic functions |
| 0:51.1 | that we use in everyday life, including our sense of balance, our ability to learn new motor behaviors, |
| 0:57.5 | as well as our sense of timing. Today we will discuss the cerebellum in what it does, |
| 1:01.9 | but Dr. David Linden will also teach us about the important sense of touch, as well as what makes us different as individuals. |
| 1:09.6 | The reason today's discussion encompasses so many important topics is that Dr. David Linden's laboratory has focused on many of those topics, |
| 1:17.1 | and he is also the author of five excellent popular books about neuroscience that focus on, for instance, |
| 1:23.6 | our sense of pleasure, and where it originates from, and what controls it in the brain, as well as our sense of touch. |
| 1:29.7 | And today we start off our discussion by talking about the recent discovery of a set of neurons that have been known about for a long period of time, |
| 1:37.9 | but that only recently have been characterized that are involved in |
| 1:41.8 | sensual touch in particular, and it's a fascinating conversation, I assure you. In addition to that, Dr. David Linden informs us about what makes us |
| 1:49.9 | individuals. How each and every one of us perceives the same things differently, and it's an absolutely fascinating conversation, |
| 1:57.2 | which tells you, for instance, why some of you think a smell is putrid, indeed, smells like vomit, whereas others, perhaps, |
| 2:04.5 | are not bothered by that smell, and why others still are attracted to that smell, or something that you look at, or something that you hear. |
| 2:12.8 | We also talk about nature versus nurture, and how we come to be who we are, not just through our genes and epigenetics, |
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