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Ketamine: Benefits and Risks for Depression, PTSD & Neuroplasticity | Huberman Lab Podcast

Andrew Huberman

Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic with significant clinical applications for treating depression, suicidality, and PTSD, yet it also carries a high potential for abuse due to its recreational use in "K holes" or pseudo-anesthetized states. While historically grouped with PCP as a dangerous drug …

Essentials: Tools to Boost Attention & Memory | Dr. Wendy Suzuki

Andrew Huberman

In this episode of Huberman Lab Essentials, Dr. Wendy Suzuki outlines four fundamental elements required for memory formation: novelty, repetition, association, and emotional resonance. She explains that while these factors help encode information, the hippocampus is the critical brain structure res …