Dr George Lee returns to discuss the latest medical news. Expect deep insights delivered with generous humour. Did you know that taking steroids for bodybuilding will also affect men’s fertility? But what about having your laptop on your lap? Or that certain foods can reverse infertility in men? Find out what is fact and myth, and whether there’s still a stigma when it comes to male fertility with fertility specialist, Dr Agilan Arjunan.

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Brain cell formation or neurogenesis is said to continue to happen throughout life. It is on this basis that we are encouraged to exercise to make new brain cells. However, a couple of papers were published a few months ago that have challenged this belief, claiming that we stop producing new brain cells in our early teenage years. To weigh on this controversy, Dr Azlina Ahmad Annuar is joined by Dr Norshariza Nordin, whose research involves working with neural stem cells.

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Dr Azlina Ahmad Annuar returns with the latest on peripheral neuropathies, which affect the motor and sensory nerves. Joining her in this month’s episode of Brain Waves are two of her longtime collaborators to look at recent developments in this field.

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May is Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month. Joining neurogeneticist Dr Azlina Ahmad Annuar on her monthly Brain Waves segment is Noraini Manan, who is an actuarial science lecturer who lives with this condition.

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Researchers in Stanford have shown that introducing young blood from young mice into old mice increases the cognitive abilities and synaptic connectivity of the latter. What's in the young blood? And will this help with neurodegenerative diseases in humans?

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The gut is often considered the second brain. Fresh off the panel session about gut health in BFM's Health & Living Live event, neurogeneticist Dr Azlina Ahmad Annuar returns to the studio to elaborate on the brain-gut connection.

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International Rare Disease Day falls on the last day of February each year. So, joining resident neuroscientist and geneticist Dr Azlina Ahmad Annuar on her show this month is Muha Aziz, who shares his story about living with a rare disease.

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One of the most common New Year's resolutions is to get more sleep. For the first show of the new year, neuroscientist and geneticist Dr Azlina Ahmad Annuar returns with the latest on sleep study so we can all get a good night’s worth of rest.

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Resident neuroscientist and geneticist Dr Azlina Ahmad Annuar wraps up the year with the latest in brain science by introducing us to yet another newly discovered body part – the endorestiform nucleus. She also describes the latest study that explains how babies create a map of their bodies by kicking in the womb.

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Studies with animals to look at learning and memory have led to Nobel Prizes. One of the more recent ones was the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of our "inner GPS" based on studies on rats, which we have discussed on Episode 3 of Brain Waves. How has studying animal behaviour helped us learn more about ourselves? Resident neuroscientist and geneticist Dr Azlina Ahmad Annuar joins us this month to discuss some of the other key discoveries made through these studies.

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