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By University College London (UCL)
The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.
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-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2023-10-18T
Duration: 01:35:46
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Caswell Barry; Selina Wray
Guests: Diksha Gupta; Rick Adams; Benedetto De Martino
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-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2023-08-29
Duration: 00:38:23
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Caswell Barry; Steve Flemming
Guests: Professor Jenny Bizley
Producer: Patrick Robinson
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-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2023-08-17
Duration: 00:42:40
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Selina Wray; Steve Flemming
Guests: Peter Kok
Producer: Patrick Robinson
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-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2023-07-14
Duration: 00:41:21
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Caswell Barry ; Stephen Flemming
Guests: Professor Sarah Garfinkel
Producer: Patrick Robinson
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-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2023-01-31
Duration: 00:49:55
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Steve Flemming; Caswell Barry
Guests: Professor Kate Jeffery
Producer: Patrick Robinson
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-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2023-01-24
Duration: 00:57:18
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Steve Flemming; Selina Wray
Guests: Professor Ed Wild
Producer: Patrick Robinson
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.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2023-01-13
Duration: 00:42:17
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Caswell Barry; Steve Flemming
Guests: Tobias Hauser
Producer: Patrick Robinson
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.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast
Hugo Spiers talks about taxis, how where you grew up affects your navigation skills, and the time that Benedict Cumberbatch ruined one of his experiments.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/n…in-stories-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2022-07-19
Duration: 00:56:28
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Selina Wray & Caswell Barry
Guests: Hugo Spiers
Producer: Patrick Robinson
Conversations with the speakers from the 2022 UCL Neuroscience Symposium.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2022-06-22
Duration: 00:35:39
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Selina Wray; Caswell Barry; Steve Fleming
Guests: UCL Neuroscience Symposium speakers
Producer: Patrick Robinson
The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.