Low Motivation & Antipsychotics
Hi Andrew, I take Seroquel/quetiapine - an atypical antipsychotic - and it is working well in terms of what it is supposed to be doing for me. Still, it has sapped my motivation and ability to focus! My understanding is that the quetiapine blocks dopamine (is that correct?) - if that is the case, will doing dopamine-boosting activities (i.e., cold showers) help me regain my motivation to get up and do my work (I am a full-time student) and my ability to focus, or will the quetiapine also block the effects of that? Thank you!
Destructive Technology Behaviour: Attention, Mood
Dear Andrew, I noticed the following pattern and wanted to ask you for advice on it for a long time. While at work (100% computer and internet based) I noticed a disturbing habit of excessive browser tab switching. My modus operandi is to have some 20 tabs open and keep jumping around between them in short order. That may entail reading a paragraph from a newspaper, switching to another news article in another tab, then on to the next one and so on. It seems to me that this is some dopamine seeking behaviour with my brain expecting some novelty stimulus each time. As you may imagine my ability to think clearly, creatively and taking part in discussions diminishes rapidly. Interestingly my ability to articulate diminishes the most. I noticed this pattern when I was regularly quite depressed every afternoon (only on workdays when on the computer - normally no depressive symptoms) that became so bad I had to get out of the office every afternoon. When I was on holiday I noticed much difficulties reading a book for example but after the first couple of days of continually refocusing (like with meditation I guess) my focus and mood were improved much and that "reservoir" stayed that way during the first few days in the office. Annoyingly I somehow cannot stop this behaviour (deleted social media, regular meditation 10-20 mins a day, reading books every day) and always fall back into this destructive behaviour for my focus and mood which is a big problem not only for my performance at work but also happiness. So my two questions are: Does this observation/hypothesis make sense to you or is there any scientific research related to it? And do you have any tips on avoiding the this addictive destructive behaviour?
Best Tattoo Ink for Safe Use
Dr Huberman, I have seen recent articles stating that some tattoo ink has been found to be carcinogenic and do not put everything on the label that is truly in the ink. How accurate is this? If so, are there some safer versions of ink out there on the market? Thanks, Jack
Tinnitus
Hi Dr. Huberman, I’m asking this question for a sister who suffers terribly with tinnitus. I’d like to know if you have any thoughts suggestions or areas that we can focus on in order to help relieve her symptoms what areas of research have been done on tinnitus and where people are seeing, good results. I appreciate all you do. Thank you for your help.
Influence of colectomy on gut microbiome? Influence of colectomy on fatty acid absorption/production?
For folks who have had a total colectomy and live with an ileostomy or j pouch- how does their gut microbiome differ, if it all? Does colectomy adversely affect the production and absorption of fatty acids?