Dr. Erik Won is the President and Chief Medical Officer of Wave Neuroscience, a biotechnology company developing innovative solutions like mental disorders like PTSD. Dr. Won served as a US Navy flight surgeon for Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 268 and became CTO of Medical at Boeing, a fortune 50 company for nearly a decade before joining Wave Neuroscience. He holds an MBA from USC Marshall School at Business and an MPH from Harvard T.H. Chan, School of Public Health. Dr. Won has been published in numerous peer reviewed journals. We discuss the science behind an innovative therapy for treating PTSD called magnetic e-resonance therapy (MeRT), a non-invasive type of transcranial magnetic stimulation procedure to stimulate specific areas of the brain for therapeutic purposes. How Erik got into studying brain health 1:33 Magnetic e-resonance therapy 3:40 After you have the quantitative EEG 12:36 Some people are worried this will change their personality or characteristics 19:34 Can this have similar benefits to smart drugs (like Adderall)? 21:49 Can reaction times be improved? 27:11 Sleep quality 30:23 Nutrition 37:33 “I still remember famously or infamously, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher talked about, ‘I don’t need sleep. I’ll sleep when I die.’ and sadly they passed from Alzheimer's disease. So yeah we’re starting to learn more and more about this. I guess the exciting part is we’re learning exponentially, every day, every week, the different facets and importance of sleep.” 36:48 https://waveneuro.com/ https://feelbrilliant.com/