Andrew Huberman· PhD
There's a phenomenon called ICU psychosis, where people that are in the intensive care unit in hospitals actually lose their mind. They become psychotic, hallucinations, etc. And it's because of altered circadian cycles.
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There's a phenomenon called ICU psychosis, where people that are in the intensive care unit in hospitals actually lose their mind. They become psychotic, hallucinations, etc. And it's because of altered circadian cycles.
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there's also something known as ICU psychosis absolutely which is when people who are perfectly mentally healthy go into a hospital yeah because of the relationship to light and the disruption and circadian rhythm from the overhead lights the checking of the patient in the middle of the night the disruption in sleep Etc people literally develop psychosis
I mean, there's this phenomenon of ICU psychosis where people don't have access to uh sunlight and circadian rhythm information. They're being woken up in the middle of the night and they literally de they're not psychotic and they develop a transient psychosis that resolves when they leave the hospital.