# What is applied neuroscience?

- **Episode:** [116](https://agents.truthliesandwork.com/episodes/116.md) (2024-07-20)
- **Type:** interview
- **Tags:** applied-neuroscience, neuroscience, brain-science
- **Time:** 4:31–5:41 (start 271s)
- **Listen:** [https://truthliesandwork.com/116?t=271](https://truthliesandwork.com/116?t=271)

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[4:31] Hilary Scarlet: My name is Hilary Scarlet. I'm a consultant and author with a particular interest in applied neuroscience. My career has kind of evolved. I didn't start out here at all. Um, yeah, originally I, I studied Arabic and French at university and thought I was going to go into the Foreign Office and then decided at the tender age of about 21 that wasn't for me. So it's kind of evolved, but I did kind of, I guess, fell into kind of change management and loved it, especially the people side of change. But I did have a frustration as to why those of us who worked in the people side of change were always called in at the very last minute
[5:11] Al Elliott: So I'm going to start with the obvious question saying, what is applied neuroscience? That sounds super fancy
[5:16] Hilary Scarlet: So neuroscience, at its simplest, is the study of the nervous system, including the brain, both in human beings and animals. And applied neuroscience, in terms of my area of applied neuroscience, is applying it to organizations. What can we learn from that to apply it to organizations? And in my particular area of interest, particularly organizations going through change. So what can we learn from neuroscience that might help us when we're going through change?