Neuroscience

We began that study in 2001, and the very first paper on that work was published in 2004.

And if you look at the number of Neuroscientific publications on meditation, you see an inflection point right around two thousand and four and five.

And at least in part, I would like to believe that that early work that we did helped to stimulate this field and show that there was really a there there.

And so what did you find when you looked at their brains?

This is where we bridge neuroscience, social and emotional learning, and human performance so we can create measurable improvements in our wellbeing, achievement, leadership, productivity, and results.

I'm Andrea Samadi, and if you've been following along through season 16, you'll know that we've been building what I call the brain's operating system for human performance.

It's a neuroscience-based framework designed to help us to understand how the different systems of the brain and body work together to influence how we learn, adapt, connect, lead, and ultimately, how we perform.

And we're currently in phase three, movement, learning, and cognition, where we've been following a central pathway.

[gentle music] Movement creates a stimulus, but movement alone doesn't make the brain and body stronger.

[upbeat music] Carolyn wouldn't call herself a neuroscientist.

She's a chemist at heart, but her work is having a big impact on neuroscience.

That work focuses on the sugar molecules that stud the surface of our cells.

It turns out these molecules are incredibly important for how cells communicate with each other.

But understanding these molecules is so complex and challenging that Carolyn had to invent a new branch of chemistry in order to study them.

So we're gonna be talking about how this research is opening doors, not only within neuroscience, but across biology and drug development.

We're gonna get into some fun chemistry here, but we're in extremely good hands, so let's jump right into my conversation with Carolyn Bertozzi.

Carolyn Bertozzi, welcome to From Our Neurons to Yours.

I'll put Eysenck's nineteen-sixties research in here, um, on intelligence assessment, et cetera, and also just how more recent work has evaluated the legitimacy of this research.

Um, Mitchell and Kumari two, twenty sixteen about Hans Eysenck's interface between the brain and personality, modern evidence from cognitive neuroscience.

That's in Personality Individual Differences, which is a great journal, highly reputable.

I'll put in a couple of more references on that if you're interested in that.

You can't because you're not allowed to.

And it's actually a really dangerous point for Hubbard in modern, given the fact that brain science has advanced the way that it Sorry, I lost my breath there.

Because all the things that we are talking about right now that we're finding are going on in the brain and we're now seeing the actual processes or refining and digging down into the details of how this stuff works.

And we're finding memory.

It's a measurable neurological cost.

Now listen, I'm not the neuroscience, but when I see something that's so interesting, I dig in.

This is a solo SuperLife podcast with me, Darin Olien, and today we're talking about going deep into the sensory neuroscience of nature.

Maybe if I get Andrew Huberman on soon enough, I'm bugging you, Andrew, we'll get you on, we'll talk further about this, or others.

But the neuroscience of nature is fascinating and wild.

Why your nervous system is quietly starving indoors.

There's a lot of reasons for that.

It's looping, it's self-referencing, it's mental chatter.

This process is essential for psychological balance.

Neuroscientific research shows that during sleep onset and early sleep stages,

memory

reactivation occurs in a fragmented, low-intensity form and experiences from the day are replayed without the full emotional response they originally carried.

can drift.

At night, the brain corrects these distortions by slowing everything down.

Neuroscientific research shows that during early non-REM stages, synaptic activity is selectively adjusted.

are gently weakened, while essential pathways are preserved.

With your background in biology and decades of experience as a trauma surgeon, including combat tours in Iraq, you've seen the physical reality of trauma up close.

From the perspective of someone as having such a leadership position and having medical providers at the El Paso VA, how hard is it to turn cutting-edge neuroscience into everyday clinical practice? And also, does it make an actual breakthrough in biological research out of the lab and into treatments for residents?

So it's not terribly difficult once the research has been done.

And the VA basically adopts things based on safety and efficacy, both medications and therapies.