Every book Masud Husain recommended on podcasts

Books recommended by Masud Husain

Who said what is determined automatically. In hand-checked samples, at least 6% of mentions were credited to the wrong speaker — sometimes an interviewer’s line recorded as the guest’s, sometimes the reverse. Every entry below quotes the words and links to the episode, so you can check it.

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   Awakenings

   Oliver Sacks · Discussed · 1 episode

   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.”

   Huberman Lab How to Improve Motivation & Overcome Procrastination | Dr. Masud Husai… 2026-08-24 ▶ Play 10:23

   Where to get it

   Amazon Audible

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