What Masud Husain has said about Parkinson's disease

1 quote · 1 episode · Aug 24, 2026

Masud Husain, Professor of Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, expert on motivation and apathy, author of Our Brains, Our Selves, has been quoted on Parkinson's disease once in 1 episode of Huberman Lab, most recently on August 24, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Husain reports that in Parkinson's patients, both reward incentives and added dopamine increase eye-movement velocity, supporting a motivation-to-act account.
“if you add dopamine to a patient with Parkinson's disease, that velocity increases even further. You've increased the vigor of a simple thing like an eye movement”
Huberman Lab: How to Improve Motivation & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Masud Husain (Aug 24, 2026) · Listen from 1:25:09

Episodes

How to Improve Motivation & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Masud Husain
Huberman Lab · Aug 24, 2026 · 2 h 21 min
Andrew Huberman and Oxford neurologist Masud Husain discuss the neuroscience of motivation, apathy, dopamine, effort-reward decisions, attention, ADHD, and Alzheimer's resilience.

Masud Husain on other topics

Dopamine · 3 quotes
Alzheimer's disease · 3 quotes
Motivation · 2 quotes
Effort-reward decision making · 2 quotes
Apathy · 2 quotes
Attention · 1 quote
Multiple sclerosis · 1 quote
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder · 1 quote