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Brain Stories is the brand new podcast from the 果冻影院 Neuroscience Domain.
Welcome to 果冻影院 Brain Stories, the monthly podcast series from the 果冻影院 Neuroscience Domain presented by Caswell Barry (果冻影院 Division of Biosciences), Steve Fleming (果冻影院 Division of Psychology and Language Sciences) and Selina Wray (果冻影院 Queen Square Institute of Neurology).
果冻影院 Brain Stories aims to showcase the best of 果冻影院 Neuroscience, highlighting the wide range of cutting-edge research going on within the Neuroscience Domain as well as bringing you the people behind the research to share their journey of how they ended up here.
Each month we鈥檒l be joined by a leading neuroscientist to offer their perspective on the big questions and challenges in Neuroscience research, to find out what stimulated their fascination with the brain and hear how they ended up becoming part of the 果冻影院 Neuroscience community.
New! Episode 18听- Brain Stories Live
The first ever live recording of the 果冻影院 Brain Stories podcast live from the Bloomsbury Studio at the Bloomsbury Theatre and Studio on 18th October 2023. Caswell and Selina spoke to Diksha Gupta, Rick Adams, and Benedetto De Martino on all things Neuro AI.
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Previous episodes
- Episode 1:听Sophie Scott and the science of laughter
In our first episode we are joined by Professor Sophie Scott, who chats to Selina and Steve about her journey from "polytechnic to PhD" and why understanding the science of laughter is so important.
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- Epsiode 2:听Nichola听Raihani and social cooperation
In our second episode Caswell and Steven are joined by Professor Nichola听Raihani who talks about her new book, Kalahari Babblers, Lizard Island and why we're better off together.
- Episode 3: Andrew Macaskill and making decisions
In our third episode Andrew Macaskill joins Selina and Caswell to talk about how the brain weighs evidence and makes decisions - also why it's important for neuroscientists to get out of their comfort zone once in a while.
- Episode 4: Nick Fox on the importance of understanding Alzheimer鈥檚 disease
In our fourth episode Selina & Caswell talk to Professor Nick Fox about the importance of research into Alzheimer鈥檚 disease and the progress being made towards better diagnosis and treatment.
- Episode 5: Tamar Makin on brain plasticity
In our fifth episode Selina and Steve chat to Professor Tamar Makin about her fascinating research on brain plasticity, artificial limbs and the potential for human augmentation.
- Episode 6: Sanjay Sisodiya on Epilepsy
In our first episode in 2022, Caswell & Selina talk to Professor Sanjay Sisodiya (果冻影院 Queen Square Institute of Neurology) about his research into epilepsy and the intersection between climate change and neurological disease.
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- Episode 7: Benedetto De Martino on decision making
Benedetto De Martino talks to Selina and Caswell about decision making, why we make choices that are bad for us, and the importance of having a hobby - plus a banjo makes an appearance.
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- Episode 8: Aman Saleem on visual input to spatial memories
Aman talks about his journey from metallurgical engineering to multi-brain region neuroscience, how this has informed his rodent VR based studies of visual navigation, and what brains taste like.
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Conversations with the speakers from the 2022 果冻影院 Neuroscience Symposium.
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听 Access the transcript soonHugo Spiers talks about taxis, how where you grew up affects your navigation skills, and the time that Benedict Cumberbatch ruined one of his experiments.
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- Episode 11: Katharina Schmack on schizophrenia and why we all hallucinate
Katharina Schmack talks to Caswell and Steve about dopamine, hallucinations, how to juggle careers in science and medicine, and why sleep-deprived parents might hear things that are not really there.
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- Episode 12:听Tobias Hauser on computational psychiatry and the origins of obsessive-compulsive disorder
Tobias Hauser talks to Steve and Caswell about common misconceptions around OCD, what the "computational" means in computational psychiatry, and the reasons why teenagers might hold the key to understanding the origins of mental health problems.
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- Episode 13: Ed Wild On Huntington鈥檚 Disease 鈥� From Genetics To Clinical Trials
Ed Wild talks to Steve and Selina in a wide-ranging discussion about Huntington鈥檚 disease 鈥� encompassing genetics, disease mechanisms, therapeutic development and clinical trials 鈥� with some interesting stories about Sea Urchins and CAG repeats, and the Pope!
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- Episode 14: Kate Jeffery On The Cognitive Map And Memory
Kate Jeffery talks to Steve and Caswell about memory, how place cells might be the neural basis of our sense of space, the joys of training rats to climb around in three dimensions, and what all this has got to do with architecture.
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- Episode 15 - Sarah Garfinkel on how clinical conditions impact emotion processing
Sarah talks to Caswell and Steve about her research exploring emotion and how brain body interactions may go awry in clinical conditions.
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- Episode 16 - Peter Kok on how the brain determines what we see
Peter Kok talks to Selina and Steve about how the brain determines our visual experience of the world and how his research aims to understand the neural circuit underlying this.
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- Episode 17听- Jenny Bizley on how the brain perceives sounds
Professor Jenny Bizley talks to Caswell and Steve about how different sounds are perceived by the brain.
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- Episode 18 - Brain Stories Live
The first ever live recording of the 果冻影院 Brain Stories podcast live from the Bloomsbury Studio at the Bloomsbury Theatre and Studio on 18th October 2023. Caswell and Selina spoke to Diksha Gupta, Rick Adams, and Benedetto De Martino on all things Neuro AI.
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