Dr Adam Gazzaley On How Taking The Road Less Travelled Matters Most

Dr Adam Gazzaley is Director of the Gazzaley Lab and Professor of Neuroscience, Physiology and Psychiatry at UCSF. His work as a cognitive researcher has reached international acclaim with publications in Nature, The New York Times, TIME, Discover, WIRED and has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors. He wrote and hosted the PBS documentary 'The Distracted Mind" and continues to do cutting edge research in the area of cognitive neuroscience with a particular interest in how gaming influences cognitive processes. 

Having completed his MD PhD at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, research fellowships at UC Berkeley and now sits on the frontier of neuroscience cognitive gaming research, he has walked an incredibly unique path in medicine. This is an exciting conversation I have wanted to have for a long time and we touch on issues related to the gamification of medicine, meditation neuroscience and if there is a scientific basis to enlightenment. 

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Selected Show Notes:

Dr Adam Gazzaley - The Gazzaley Lab   

Come Wander - Adam Gazzaley Photography 

PBS Special - "The Distracted Mind" with Dr Adam Gazzaley

Nature "Games to do good"

TEDxASB: Mumbai India "Closing The Loop Between The Brain and Education"

Ted Sonoma - Promise of Tech and the Brain

Twitter: @AdamGazz