Overload
Are you overwhelmed by the changes that have occurred in your career due to the great popularity of this podcast. How do you manage juggling all the demands involving your full time career as a Professor teaching and mentoring students while running your Research Lab __ along with your continuing to contribution an enormous amount of valuable content here. You are growing a very impactful library of salient public education and you have begun to tour too. Wow! Ok, so how exactly are you doing all this??? Specifically, what are the nuts and bolts that keep you from coming unglued???
The effects of gaming on the brain
Mobile and desktop games, puzzles, board games, and multiplayer ones - what happens when you're playing? What's the effect of gaming on your brain, and are there benefits to it? How are the skills developed when playing chess or counter strike applicable to day-to-day life, if at all?
Psilocybin and Dementia
I am currently using Psilocybin (micro dose) for anxiety but I have a long history of frontotemporal dementia in my family and I am a double APOE 4 carrier. Your podcast on cannabis and the impact on the brain was fantastic but I wonder about how psilocybin impacts it. I worry that I am just creating greater risk for my brain health by taking it but Dr Dale Bredesen recommends staying away from SSRIs.