Heart Of The Matter - A Health Humanities Podcast

Heart Of The Matter - A Health Humanities Podcast

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Heart Of The Matter - A Health Humanities Podcast episodes

  • Stories synchronise heart rate changes

    In this episode, we discuss a paper from the Parra Lab, "Conscious processing of narrative stimuli synchronizes heart rate between individuals" by Perez et al. This paper highlights how conscious processing can synchronise heart range changes across individuals, and how patients with congnitive impairment do no exhibit the same synchronicity. 

    We also discuss zombies, electroencephalograms and the origins of this show's introduction music. 

    Link to Paper.


    Join Dr Claire Hansen, Dr Bríd Phillips and Dr Michael Stevens on this wonderful journey!

    41 min
  • Shakespeare and....Artificial Hearts??

    There's no better way to start a podcast series than blatant self promotion! 

    In this episode, Bríd interviews Claire and Michael about their recent publication, "Be still, my beating heart: reading pulselessness from Shakespeare to the artificial heart", published in BMJ Medical Humanities. Claire and Michael explain the links between left ventricular assist devices and Romeo and Juliet. 

    19 min
  • Welcome to Heart of The Matter

    Welcome to the Heart of The Matter podcast! In this mini-episode, we introduce ourselves and the purpose of this collaboration.


    Note: There are one or two microphone/echo issues that we can't remove unfortunately. We're learning as we go!

    8 min

About Heart Of The Matter - A Health Humanities Podcast

From the publisher's feed

This podcast will involve discussions with researchers in the Heart of the Matter project - an interdisciplinary project that aims to deepen our understanding of the heart and improve human wellbeing through fostering dialogue and innovation across the fields of health, medicine, engineering, philosophy, literary studies and the humanities.