Tics! Voluntary or involuntary? What is the difference with a compulsion? Where is the tic generator in the brain? How are they impacting on people’s lives? Ecocipam or cbit? All discussed in this weeks episode.

Since the discovery of chlorpromazine, dopamine dominated our efforts to understand and treat psychosis, not always with success. Is glutamate the answer? All you want to know about glutamate and psychosis in this weeks episode.

What is ayahuasca? Is it the most “psychoanalytic” psychedelic? Can it make you see with eyes closed? How are visions linked to psychotherapy? Are all people ready for its profound effect?  Does culture affect drug policy? All discussed in this weeks episode.

Where is the dream factory in the brain? What happens to consciousness when we sleep? Can people with paraplegia from birth walk in their dreams? Can you predict a psychotic relapse by monitoring sleep? What makes a sleep history good? All this and more in this weeks BRΛINCAST episode.

Are emotions different than feelings? How are they linked to delusions? What makes one resilient to #psychosis? How would a disease-modifying drug look like? What about gender inequality in Academia; is that still a thing? All this and more in this weeks episode. 

How do psychedelics make your brain “escape”? Can a near-death-experience be a good thing? MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, anyone? Should politicians be breathalysed before voting? Pospo meets Professor David Nutt in this weeks episode. 

Change of tune this Monday as BRΛINCAST goes Neuropsychiatry (yes, I’m biased)! All the questions you may have around Impulse Control Disorders and its potentially devastating consequences.

You can be a Cardiologist and have hypertension, but can you be a Psychiatrist and a patient? Can you be open about it? Is there still Stigma around mental health? Thought we solved that ages ago...no? Dr Ahmed Hankir discusses being a Psychiatrist with lived experience in this weeks episode. 

Some are good with words. Some are good with music. Some are just as good in both! In this episode Pospo meets Mercury Prize nominee Shabaka Hutchings where they explore jazz, drugs, racism, silence and the “amnesia of technique”.