Episode · Huberman Lab · 2026-08-24
Books mentioned on How to Improve Motivation & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Masud Husain
Dr. Masud Husain is a Professor of Neurology & Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and a leading expert on the science of motivation, apathy, and neurological diseases.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Awakenings
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is a classic medical nonfiction book chronicling the poignant, real-life stories of chronic encephalitis lethargica patients whom the neurologist treated with the drug L-dopa in the late 1960s.
Discussed“So initially we tried Leodopa L-dopa which is the drug that Oliver Saxs describes in Awakenings and many people have seen the film and it's used a lot in Parkinson's disease for treatment.”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Protocols
“It's entitled Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body. This is a book that I've been working on for more than 5 years, and that's based on more than 30 years of research and experience.”