Dr. Andrew Huberman
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He's probing around in people's brains.
They got a little piece of skull missing.
He's stimulating in the brain.
He's asking them questions.
How do you feel?
What's going on?
How do you feel?
What's going on?
And he's got this electrode in the anterior mid-singulate cortex.
And the patient says, I feel like something really bad's going to happen.
Like a storm's coming.
He's like, okay, well, we can stop stimulating.
He's like, no, I'm going into the storm.
He's like, oh, that's interesting.
Stimulate a little bit further back, just by a millimeter or so, completely different subjective experience for the patient.
That's interesting.
Get a different patient in there, map to the anterior mid-singulate cortex, stimulate, and the person says, I feel like I'm going to get out of my chair and I'm going to do something hard.
Wild, right?
this is prior to any knowledge of what the anterior mid-singulate cortex is doing.
Make a long story short, people who successfully overcome a physical challenge, a cognitive challenge, that learn a new skill, that successful dieters, I don't really like that term, their anterior mid-singulate cortex grows or becomes more active under conditions that challenge the anterior mid-singulate cortex.