Parkinson's disease
Subject in Medicine
Parkinson's disease has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Huberman Lab. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Masud HusainProfessor of Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, expert on motivation and apathy, author of Our Brains, Our Selves
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
Podcasts
- Huberman Lab · 1 episode
Episodes
How to Improve Motivation & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Masud HusainHuberman 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.