Brain Stories

Sep 09 2024 20 ep. 45 mins 13
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Welcome to UCL Brain Stories, the monthly podcast series from the UCL Neuroscience Domain presented by Caswell Barry (UCL Division of Biosciences), Steve Fleming (UCL Division of Psychology & Language Sciences) and Selina Wray (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology). UCL Brain Stories aims to showcase the best of UCL 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’ll 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 UCL Neuroscience community. For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast

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Brain Stories – Episode 20: Tali Sharot on what influences our beliefs and decision making

Sep 09 2024 49 mins  
Professor Tali Sharot talks to Caswell and Selina about why we're easy to influence and overly optimistic Date of episode recording: 2024-07-19T00:00:00Z Duration: 00:49:49 Language of episode: English TAGS: as before Presenter: Caswell Barry; Selina Wray Guests: Professor Tali Sharot Producer: Patrick Robinson

Brain Stories - Episode 19: Sonia Gandhi on researching and treating Parkinson's Disease

Aug 26 2024 47 mins  
Professor Sonia Gandhi talks to Steve and Selina about her research into the biology of Parkinson's disease, and how this understanding could lead to new treatments. Date of episode recording: 2024-06-14T00:00:00Z Duration: 00:47:53 Language of episode: English Presenter:Steve Flemming; Selina Wray Guests: Professor Sonia Gandhi Producer: Patrick Robinson

Brain Stories Live - Episode 18: Neuro AI

Nov 10 2023 95 mins  
The first ever live recording of the UCL 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.For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcastDate of epis

Brain Stories - Episode 17: Jenny Bizley on how the brain perceives sounds

Sep 12 2023 38 mins  
Professor Jenny Bizley talks to Caswell and Steve about how different sounds are perceived by the brain.For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcastDate of episode recording: 2023-08-29Duration: 00:38:23Language of episode: EnglishPresenter: Caswell Barry; Steve FlemmingGuests: Professor Jenny BizleyPro

Brain stories - Episode 16: Peter Kok on how the brain determines what we see

Sep 06 2023 42 mins  
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.For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcastDate of episode recording: 2023-08-17Duration: 00:42:40Language of episode: English

Brain Stories - Episode 15: Sarah Garfinkel on how clinical conditions impact emotion processing

Aug 03 2023 41 mins  
Professor Sarah Garfinkel talks to Caswell and Steve about her research exploring emotion and how brain body interactions may go awry in clinical conditions.For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcastDate of episode recording: 2023-07-14Duration: 00:41:21Language of episode: EnglishPresenter: Caswell B

Brain Stories - Episode 14: Kate Jeffery On The Cognitive Map And Memory

Mar 14 2023 49 mins  
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.For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcastDate of episode recording: 2

Brain Stories - Episode 13: Ed Wild On Huntington’s Disease – From Genetics To Clinical Trials

Feb 20 2023 57 mins  
Ed Wild talks to Steve and Selina in a wide-ranging discussion about Huntington’s disease – encompassing genetics, disease mechanisms, therapeutic development and clinical trials – with some interesting stories about Sea Urchins and CAG repeats, and the Pope!For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcastDat

Brain Stories - Episode 12: Tobias Hauser On Computational Psychiatry And The Origins Of OCD

Jan 25 2023 42 mins  
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.

Brain Stories - Episode 11: Katharina Schmack on Schizophrenia and why We All Hallucinate

Nov 01 2022 42 mins  
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.