Brain Stories

Episode 23- Jenny Lange on the gothic history of neuroscience, a Halloween special

In this special Halloween episode of Brainstories, Selina and Caswell speak with Dr Jenny Lange (UK DRI at UCL) about the gothic history of neuroscience — and how scienti

Brain Stories Episode 22 Caswell Barry and Lucy Unwin talk about the neuroscience behind their new children’s book – Inside Your Brain

Caswell Barry and Lucy Unwin talk about the neuroscience behind their new children’s book – Inside Your Brain. Inside Your Brain takes readers on an irreverent gallop thr

Brain Stories - Episode 21: Professor Adrian Isaacs on Frontotemporal Dementia

Selina and Caswell chat with Professor Adrian Isaacs from the UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL to talk Frontotemporal Dementia — from how fruit flies are helping, to

Brain Stories – Episode 20: Tali Sharot on what influences our beliefs and decision making

Professor Tali Sharot talks to Caswell and Selina about why we're easy to influence and overly optimistic   Date of episode recording: 2024-07-19T00:00:00Z  Duration: 00

Brain Stories - Episode 19: Sonia Gandhi on researching and treating Parkinson's Disease

Professor Sonia Gandhi talks to Steve and Selina about her research into the biology of Parkinson's disease, and how this understanding could lead to new treatments.   D

Brain Stories Live - Episode 18: Neuro AI

The first ever live recording of the UCL Brain Stories podcast live from the Bloomsbury Studio at the Bloomsbury Theatre and Studio on 18th October 2023. Caswell and Seli

Brain Stories - Episode 17: Jenny Bizley on how the brain perceives sounds

Professor Jenny Bizley talks to Caswell and Steve about how different sounds are perceived by the brain. For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.u

Brain stories - Episode 16: Peter Kok on how the brain determines what we see

Peter Kok talks to Selina and Steve about how the brain determines our visual experience of the world and how his research aims to understand the neural circuit underlyin

Brain Stories - Episode 15: Sarah Garfinkel on how clinical conditions impact emotion processing

Professor Sarah Garfinkel talks to Caswell and Steve about her research exploring emotion and how brain body interactions may go awry in clinical conditions. For more in

Brain Stories - Episode 14: Kate Jeffery On The Cognitive Map And Memory

Kate Jeffery talks to Steve and Caswell about memory, how place cells might be the neural basis of our sense of space, the joys of training rats to climb around in three

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 clinica

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

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 thin

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 infor

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 - 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

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

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 inters

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 augme

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 neuroscientis