Andrew D. Huberman is an American neuroscientist and associate professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has made contributions to the brain development, brain plasticity, and neural regeneration and repair fields. Much of his work is focused on the visual system, including the mechanisms controlling light-mediated activation of the circadian and autonomic arousal centers in the brain. Huberman studied the structure of binocular visual pathways that set the circadian clock in the hypothalamus. He discovered that non-invasive methods such as visual stimulation can enhance the regeneration of damaged retinal neurons, leading to partial recovery from blindness.
His lab pioneered using genetic tools to study the visual system function, development, and disease. The work is part of the National Eye Institute’s Audacious Goals Initiative to restore vision to the blind. In 2017, the Huberman Lab created a virtual reality platform for probing the neural mechanisms underlying pathological fear and anxiety. That work involved collecting 360-degree videos of various fear-inducing scenarios such as heights and claustrophobia as well as atypical fear-inducing situations such as swimming with great white sharks. The Huberman VR platform is aimed at making discoveries that will lead to developing new tools for humans to adjust their state in order to promote adaptive coping with stress.
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