Dr. Andrew Huberman joins Daniel Schmachtenberger to discuss the neuroscience behind courage and fear, what is really going on inside your brain, and what tools and techniques you can use to control and respond to fear.  Dr. Andrew Huberman Ph.D.  is a neuroscientist and Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine and runs Huberman Labs. He has made numerous important contributions to the fields of brain development, brain plasticity, and neural regeneration and repair.

In This Episode We Discuss:

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• Changing our behavioral response to fear
  
• Brain areas associated with the fear response
  
• How to increase the body’s adaptive capacity with hormesis
  
• Almost dying while swimming with great white sharks
  
• The positive rewards of confronting fears
  

For full show notes visit: http://neurohacker.com/the-neuroscience-of-courage-and-fear/