This week we decided to step aside from the usual digital health related conversations and dwell upon some of the bigger questions in life : What is consciousness? How is it that we share 99% of our DNA with Chimpanzees yet the human ability to communicate and cooperate is so unique?

Our guest this week is Dr. Alex Gillespie - Assistant Professor in the department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics. He has been studying human communication from a social psychological perspective throughout his academic career and has written several books on the topic.

You can check out his work here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/PBS/People/Dr-Alex-Gillespie 

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Alex Ksendzovsky is a neurosurgeon, researcher and entrepreneur working in Baltimore USA. His practice focuses on epilepsy and movement disorders, as well as brain tumours in ‘eloquent’ areas of the brain, for which he performs awake brain surgery. We discuss the origins of consciousness, the meaning of life, the future of brain research, motivation, the benefits of diversifying your work and what he has learned from his multicultural roots.

NewTouch Digital - https://www.newtouchdigital.com/

Alex’s medical profile - https://www.umms.org/find-a-doctor/profiles/dr-alexander-ksendzovsky-md-1326305095

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Let’s diversify digital health! That is the message from our guest Dr Ayesha Rahim, consultant psychiatrist and Chief Clinical Information Officer for the NHS. 

Links: https://www.digitalhealth.net/

https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/members/special-interest-groups/digital-psychiatry-special-interest-group

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Music scores:

C418: https://c418.bandcamp.com/track/stranger-think

And: Ricky Bombino on premiumbeat.com

We delve into nano this week with Dr Joe Davids - clinician and PhD candidate at Imperial College London. Join us as Joe explains what nano really is, how nano could completely change the neurosciences and why the future looks bright for medicine.

We discuss wearable technology with Walk With Path CEO - Lise Pape. Lise offers advice for those wishing to start a medical technology company and discusses her own realisations of the life-changing potential of medical technology 

We question the fundamental assumptions in global health and development this week, including: How does power relate to global inequalities and how can we solve health disparities?

Two computer scientists join us to tackle the big ideas in AI and medicine, including: how far will AI go in medicine? What does it mean to be intelligent? Can we answer the issue of over-medicalisation using digital technology?

This episode we discuss the Schiphol Airport toilets; the fake news epidemic; the human behaviour change project and iron deficiency anaemia management in India. Unni Kumar joins us live from Australia!

This episode we discuss the Schiphol Airport toilets; the fake news epidemic; the human behaviour change project and iron deficiency anaemia management in India. Unni Kumar joins us live from Australia!

We chat artificial intelligence and digital health with Dr Iain Doig. Iain is a passionate advocate for equitable healthcare, having previously held the role of Global Health Education officer in the UK-based charity Students for Global Health. He is currently working as a Junior Doctor in the UK. We discuss artificial intelligence as applied to public health and whether technology has a role in healthcare provision for low- and middle-income settings across the world.

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