American neuroscientist Andrew D. Huberman has made contributions to the fields of brain development, brain plasticity, and neural regeneration and repair.
What kind of doctor is Huberman?
He is a tenured associate professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine’s department of neurobiology, psychiatry, and behavioural sciences.
His research on the visual system, including the mechanisms governing the brain’s circadian and autonomic arousal centres’ light-mediated activation as well as the control of conscious vision or sight, is a significant portion of his body of work.
The phrase “Non-Sleep Deep Rest” (NSDR), which Huberman is credited with inventing, refers to techniques that induce brief periods of shallow sleep in the brain and body in order to boost neuroplasticity and lessen mental and physical exhaustion.
Huberman performed the first experiments defining the structure of binocular visual pathways that set the circadian clock in the hypothalamus between 1998 and 2000 while working in the lab of Irving Zucker and Marc Breedlove at the University of California, Berkeley.
They were both members of a team that defined how early androgen exposure impacts development.
