2024-09-23
2 小时 26 分钟Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast, where we discuss science and science based tools for everyday life.
I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.
My guest today is Doctor Victor Carian.
Doctor Victor Carrion is a professor and the vice chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine.
He is one of the world's foremost experts on post traumatic stress disorder, in particular the treatment of post traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents, although his knowledge and today's discussion certainly extends to adult PTSD as well.
Doctor Karen is also the director of the Stanford Early Life Stress and Resilience program, and today's discussion focuses on the psychological and the neurobiological underpinnings of PTSD and which treatments are most effective for PTSD.
We focus heavily on a particular therapy called Q centered therapy that was developed by Doctor Carrion and colleagues that has been shown to offset the triggering by words or events or memories that often are the precursors to PTSD episodes, and this has been shown to be effective in both children and adults.
Today's discussion explores the difference between anxiety, stress, and trauma.
We talk about how those things, of course, are related, but how they can be separated out to better understand if indeed somebody has trauma, and how to best approach the treatment of that trauma.
As you'll soon see, what makes Doctor Carrion's work so unique is that it combines the psychological, the neurobiological, but also practical tools such as mindfulness.
It relates mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy to the underlying biology and what's known about the psychiatry and psychology of PTSD at its different stages depending on the trauma, the age of the person, et cetera.
Today, Doctor Carrion clearly explains all of that, so that by the end of today's conversation, you'll really understand what PTSD is and is not, and, of course.
The best ways to treat it.
Before you begin, I'd like to emphasize that this podcast is separate from my teaching and research roles at Stanford.
It is, however, part of my desire and effort to bring zero cost to consumer information about science and science related tools to the general public.
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