Dr. Jack Feldman

Invariably, they find that it's helpful.

I will often interrupt my day to take five or 10 minutes.

Like if I find that I'm lagging, I think there's some pretty good data that your performance after lunch

declines.

And so very often what I'll do after lunch is take five or 10 minutes and just sort of breath practice.

And sometimes I'll do doubles.

I'll do 10 seconds.

Just because I get bored, you know, it's just nice.

I feel like doing it.

And it's...

It's very helpful.

So I need to disclose that I am a scientific advisor to a company called Neurosensory, which my graduate student, Kuo-Sung Liu, is CEO.

So that said, I can give you some background.

Kuo-Sung, although when he was in my lab, worked on breathing, had a deep interest in learning and memory.

And when he left my lab, he went to work with a renowned learning and memory guy at Stanford, Dick Chen.

And when he finished there, he was hired by Susumu Tanagawa at MIT.

Yeah.

He's many things.

And Guo-Sung had very curious, very bright guy, and he was interested in how signals between neurons get strengthened, which is called long-term potentiation or LTP.

And one of the questions that arose was if I have inputs to a neuron and I get LTP, is the LTP bigger if the signal is bigger or the noise is less?