2025-08-18
2 小时 23 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 Dr. Sergio Posca.
Dr. Sergio Posca is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and the director of the Stanford Brain Organogenesis Program.
During today's episode, we discuss autism, schizophrenia,
and human brain development generally, both brain development during pregnancy,
as well as during childhood, and leading all the way up to our third decade of life.
During today's discussion,
you will get the most up-to-date information about autism and its treatments.
You'll learn why the prevalence of autism is rising, the role that genes play in autism,
and the novel treatments that Dr. Poska is developing to treat what is called profound autism,
which are the most severe cases of autism.
Dr. Poska is one of a small handful of researchers that pioneered the discovery and development of what are called organoids and assembloids,
which are essentially human brain circuits derived from stem cells that form in a dish so that one can study them directly.
And while that might sound artificial,
today he explains why those organoids and assembloids are immensely powerful for understanding exactly what is wrong in psychiatric illnesses like profound autism,
schizophrenia, and other psychiatric challenges, and for developing cures.
So today you're going to learn a lot about human brain development and about stem cells,