Andrew Huberman

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. David Anderson.

David, great to be here and great to finally sit down and chat with you.

I want to start with something fairly basic, and that's the difference between emotions and states.

How should we think about them?

And why might states be at least as useful a thing to think about, if not more useful?

What are some of the other features of states that represent below the tip of the iceberg?

I'd like to talk a bit about aggression, the beautiful work of Dayu Lin and others in your lab.

What are your thoughts on aggression, how it's generated the neural circuit mechanisms and some of the variation in what we call aggression?

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