Compulsions, Cravings & DBS — Huberman Lab (Essentials)
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When compulsions hijack choice, the brain circuits behind craving can be mapped and modulated. This Essentials edit condenses a ~2-hour conversation into ~20 minutes, distilling Andrew Huberman’s interview with neurosurgeon Dr. Casey Halpern on deep brain stimulation, focused ultrasound, and the neural signatures of OCD and addiction. Learn how invasive recordings and provocation paradigms reveal biomarkers in the nucleus accumbens, how closed‑loop neuromodulation could detect and stop compulsive acts, and why invasive work informs scalable, noninvasive tools like TMS and focused ultrasound. Hosts Andrew Huberman and guest Dr. Casey Halpern unpack treatment‑resistant OCD, predictive machine‑learning approaches, and the path from single‑patient mapping to broader neuromodulation therapies. Listen now to get the key ideas in minutes.
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