# Adrian Owen

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Adrian Owen: Awake. Aware. Unable to Move.

SPONSORS: - Visit https://mod.com for a free consultation and get 10% off your first order PLUS free shipping with promo code TOE. There are three questions people ask about consciousness: what it is, how to explain it, and how to measure it. This episode is entirely the third one. Adrian Owen, pr…

Chilina Kennedy and The Science of Comfort

In this episode Why sleep headlines and affiliate-driven product claims deserve more scrutiny What the evidence did — and did not — say about white noise in 2021 Why a 5:30 a.m. productivity routine tells you almost nothing without bedtime and total sleep duration The corrected eight-year comparis…

Cognition, COVID and Continuation

In this episode Why Season Two shifts from learning about sleep to testing sleep interventions The role cognition was intended to play in judging whether a sleep experiment worked Why adolescent biology clashes with very early school start times Where the 16.5% teen-car-crash figure actually came …

LEAKED! The Snooze Button - The Book!

In this episode Why the podcast originally existed as the public research phase of The Snooze Button book Neil reading three chapters of the raw 2020 manuscript “Phillips Is an Ass” and the internal absurdity of a sleepless night Clock-watching, bargaining, caffeine, meditation and sleep perfor…

Sleep Lab Results with Dr. Mark Boulos - Part Two

In this episode Dr. Mark Boulos and I sit down after my second night in the Sunnybrook sleep lab to find out what changed, including: what happened after treatment for the periodic limb movements found during my first sleep study; why my wife's description of my sleep changed almost immediately; w…

Sleep, Decision-Making, and the Strange Science of Consciousness with Dr. Adrian Owen

What if poor sleep is affecting your judgment long before you actually feel sleepy? In this episode of The Snooze Button, Neil welcomes neuroscientist Dr. Adrian Owen for the show’s first official guest interview. Dr. Owen is best known for his groundbreaking work using brain imaging to detect sign…

CM 327: Adrian Owen on How to Sharpen Your Mind

When it comes to enhancing mental performance, we’re all looking for an edge. And while a healthy diet, regular exercise, and ample rest support healthy brain function, they can only get us so far. What really matters when it comes to improving our focus, regulating our emotions, or planning for o…

What happened to our attention spans?

Are you constantly checking your phone? Do you find it harder to concentrate for long periods of time? Or plan ahead? Us too. Executive function is the ability we have as humans to suppress basic instincts and desires for long term gain. It's why you can work every day when what you really want to …

Thinking better: simple ways to change your brain

In a world where we often defer to technology, neuroscientist Adrian Owen says we need to pause and think about whether we should just engage our brain instead.