Essentials: Compulsive Behaviors & Deep Brain Stimulation | Dr. Casey Halpern

Welcome to Huberman Lab Essentials, where we revisit past episodes for the most potent and actionable science-based tools for mental health, physical health, and performance. I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. And now for my discussion with Dr. Casey Halpern. Casey, I should say, Dr.

Halpern. Welcome. Thank you. Great to be here. You're a neurosurgeon, which I consider the astronauts of neuroscience.

For those that aren't familiar with the differences between neurosurgery, neurology, psychiatry, maybe if you just educate us a bit, what does a neurosurgeon do? And how do you think about and conceptualize the brain? Yeah, the scope of neurosurgery is quite broad. We take out brain tumors, we clip aneurysms in the brain, we take care of patients that have had traumatic brain injury. concussion, spine surgeries, 90% of what neurosurgeons do around the country, you know, taking care of herniated discs and lumbar fusions.

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