Your Brain on Diving

New book! I’m excited to communicate new insights from hyperbaric physiology to the diving community. This is material you certainly won’t learn in your average scuba course. Many thanks to Felicitas Hübner for being an excellent, diligent publisher, to my partner in life Glaiza for editing the text, and to Matt Reed for posing for the title image (a few years ago, on Monad Shoal).

The book contains the English translation of chapters of Gehirn Extrem, (previously published with Hübner in German), and new chapters. I cover the possible molecular mechanisms of inert gas narcosis, the brain regions involved in controlling breathing, and how these brain regions interact with other regions which control and encode fear and pain. I also write about the unusual genetic adaptation of the Southeast Asian Bajau tribe for freediving.

Please read, give me feedback, recommend, share on social media, and leave online reviews.

You can get it via Amazon or via Lovely Books.

And, below is an interview with Dr. Gerald Pao, Salk Institute, whose new work on the brain centers involved in fear/pain, and breathing is also covered in the book (the interview is in German).