Markus Reuber, professor of clinical neurology, University of Sheffield, discusses the different cellular mechanisms which allow seizures in epilepsy to happen, and how this understanding could lead to disease modification with John Jefferys, professor of neuroscience, University of Birmingham.

This podcast was recorded at the British NeuroPsychiatry Association’s 2013 AGM. For more information on the association and next year’s meeting, see bnpa.org.uk.

Tim Nicholson, academic clinical lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, gives Hugh Rickards, consultant in neuropsychiatry, University of Birmingham, an update on autoimmune mechanisms and encephalitis. Dr Nicholson covers where we are with understanding and treating paediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS), and also NMDA-receptor encephalitis.

This podcast was recorded at the British NeuroPsychiatry Association’s 2013 AGM. For more information on the association and next year’s meeting, see bnpa.org.uk.

Eileen Joyce, professor in neuropsychiatry at the Institute of Neurology, gives Hugh Rickards, consultant in neuropsychiatry, University of Birmingham, an update on the use of deep brain stimulation to treat mental disorders, particularly OCD.

This podcast was recorded at the British NeuroPsychiatry Association’s 2013 AGM. For more information on the association and next year’s meeting, see bnpa.org.uk.

Selma Aybek, clinician researcher, Service of Neurology, University of Lausanne, has been examining the process which allows psychological stressors to become physical symptoms in conversion disorder. Chris Butler, academic clinical lecturer in neurology, University of Oxford, asks her what she’s found.

This podcast was recorded at the British NeuroPsychiatry Association’s 2013 AGM. For more information on the association and next year’s meeting, see bnpa.org.uk.

Cliodhna Carroll, along with colleagues at the University of Cambridge, has shown that children who’ve had a posterior fossa tumour have a lower IQ than matched controls. She talks Chris Butler, academic clinical lecturer in neurology, University of Oxford, through the research and its implications.

This podcast was recorded at the British NeuroPsychiatry Association’s 2013 AGM. For more information on the association and next year’s meeting, see bnpa.org.uk.

Chris Butler, academic clinical lecturer in neurology, University of Oxford, talks to Rebecca Cleary, research assistant, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuro-imaging, UCL, about her research investigating whether the neural substrate in those with depression or anxiety is the same as in those with one of these disorders and also temporal lobe epilepsy.

This podcast was recorded at the British NeuroPsychiatry Association’s 2013 AGM. For more information on the association and next year’s meeting, see bnpa.org.uk.

Neil Greenberg, academic psychiatrist, Kings College London, who’s served in the armed forces for more than 20 years, argued in his JNNP-sponsored keynote at BNPA that we understand many of the issues in military mental health, and that the neuropsychiatric element is relatively small. Alan Carson, JNNP associate editor, talks to him about the impact of being in the military on mental health beyond PTSD.

This podcast was recorded at the British NeuroPsychiatry Association’s 2013 AGM. For more information on the association and next year’s meeting, see bnpa.org.uk.

David Skuse, professor in the Behavioural Sciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, talks to Jeremy Hall, professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of Cardiff, about his work investigating the link between childhood stress and borderline personality disorder.

This podcast was recorded at the British NeuroPsychiatry Association’s 2013 AGM. For more information on the association and next year’s meeting, see bnpa.org.uk.

Alan Carson, JNNP associate editor, talks to Neil Harrison, consultant neuropsychiatrist and head of psychoneuroimmunology, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, about what we currently know about inflammation in mental disorders. Dr Harrison also discusses the potential of anti-inflammatories to treat depression.

This podcast was recorded at the British NeuroPsychiatry Association’s 2013 AGM. For more information on the association and next year’s meeting, see bnpa.org.uk.

David Skuse, professor in the Behavioural Sciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, asks Chris Brewin, professor of clinical psychology, UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences, about the different forms of PTSD experience, the cognitive processes involved, and how understanding these could inform psychological therapies for the condition.

This podcast was recorded at the British NeuroPsychiatry Association’s 2013 AGM. For more information on the association and next year’s meeting, see bnpa.org.uk.