Nervous systems can be studied in isolation or in groups. It's harder to do that in the laboratory, although there are people starting to put two people into a scanner and seeing how the brain areas interact. The other thing is this notion of social contagion and we are profoundly influenced by sensory experience. Some people are drawn more toward or are shifted more by other people's emotional states. We sometimes hold up empathy as this ideal. That empathy is very dangerous because empathy in the wrong context,. You know, your kid freaking out about an experience at school. If you experience true empathy, you abandon your own emotional state, but you're not effective parenting or effective leadership.
Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and tenured Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has made numerous significant contributions to the fields of brain development, brain function and neural plasticity, which is the ability of our nervous system to rewire and learn new behaviors, skills and cognitive functioning.
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