Brain Stories

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Brain Stories episodes

February 20, 2023 Brain Stories - Episode 13: Ed Wild On Huntington’s Disease – From Genetics To Clinical Trials
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
58 min
January 25, 2023 Brain Stories - Episode 12: Tobias Hauser On Computational Psychiatry And The Origins Of OCD
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
43 min
November 01, 2022 Brain Stories - 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.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast
43 min
July 25, 2022 Brain Stories - Episode 10: Hugo Spiers on the brains of taxi drivers
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
57 min
July 05, 2022 Brain Stories – Episode 9: UCL Neuroscience Symposium
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
38 min
April 28, 2022 Brain Stories - Episode 8: Aman Saleem on Visual Input to Spatial Memories
Aman talks to Caswell and Steve 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.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast

Date of episode recording: 2022-04-13
Duration: 00:43:13
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Caswell Barry; Steve Fleming; Selina Wray
Guests: Aman Saleem
Producer: Patrick Robinson
44 min
March 28, 2022 Brain Stories - 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.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/n…in-stories-podcast
42 min
January 14, 2022 Brain Stories - Episode 6: Sanjay Sisodiya on Epilepsy
In our first episode in 2022, Caswell & Selina talk to Professor Sanjay Sisodiya (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) about his research into epilepsy and the intersection between climate change and neurological disease.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/n…in-stories-podcast

Date of episode recording: 2021-12-06
Duration: 15/12/21
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Caswell Barry; Steve Fleming; Selina Wray
Guests: Sanjay Sisodiya
Producer: Suzie McCarthy
39 min
November 26, 2021 Brain Stories - 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.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/n…in-stories-podcast

Date of episode recording: 2021-11-24
Duration: 00:34:20
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Caswell Barry; Steve Fleming; Selina Wray
Guests: Professor Tamar Makin
Producer: Suzie McCarthy
35 min
September 21, 2021 Brain Stories - 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.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/n…in-stories-podcast

39 min

About Brain Stories

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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.