Anterior midcingulate cortex
Subject in Life Sciences
Anterior midcingulate cortex has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Huberman Lab. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Andrew HubermanAmerican neuroscientist, professor at Stanford School of Medicine and host of the Huberman Lab podcast
Huberman stated that the anterior midcingulate cortex enlarges when people do hard things but that neuroscience does not yet know its computations.
“It shrinks when people... tend to shy away from hard things. Its activity and size correlates with success in doing hard things”
Huberman Lab: Unlocking Persistent Motivation & Extreme Resilience | Ross Edgley (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 11:50
Podcasts
- Huberman Lab · 1 episode
Episodes
Unlocking Persistent Motivation & Extreme Resilience | Ross EdgleyHuberman Lab · Oct 26, 2026 · 2 h 44 min
Andrew Huberman and ultra-endurance swimmer Ross Edgley build a multi-source model of motivation, discussing brain circuits, extreme swims, fatherhood, pain tolerance, supplements and strength training.