Lessons - The Neuroscience Breakthrough That Could Stop Brain Disease | David Eagleman - Stanford Neuroscientist
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🗓️ 6 July 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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In this “Lessons” episode, Stanford neuroscientist David Eagleman shares how challenging the brain with novelty—like learning unfamiliar skills—builds new neural pathways that can delay dementia more effectively than diet or supplements. He explains why mental and social engagement, not comfort or routine, protects long-term brain health, citing studies showing how cognitively active people maintain sharpness despite physical signs of degeneration. Eagleman also introduces the idea of “Ulysses contracts”—clever psychological tricks to help us resist short-term temptations by making decisions in advance when we’re thinking clearly.
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| 1:43.1 | In this lessons episode, explore how novelty and mental challenge protect the brain from cognitive decline learn how trying new activities builds neural pathways that delay dementia learn why staying socially and mentally active is more powerful than relying on diet or supplements and learn how ulysses contracts help us beat temptation and make |
| 2:01.5 | better decisions for our future selves. |
| 2:10.3 | One more thought and question on memory and sort of brain health and brain optimization. |
| 2:18.3 | I've spoken to Stephen Kotler, who does a lot of work on flow state, and he's written several books. I've done how many. |
| 2:28.3 | And he was speaking about activities that ward off Alzheimer's and dementia. And I don't know about the science behind it. |
| 2:36.6 | He has a lot of conviction that certain kinds of activities can ward off Alzheimer's dementia. |
| 2:42.9 | Is there anything that is studied or proven to ward off Alzheimer's dementia if that's something |
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