Brain Stories
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Welcome to UCL Brain Stories, the monthly podcast series from the UCL Neuroscience Domain presented by Caswell Barry (UCL Division of Biosciences), Steve Fleming (UCL Division of Psychology & Language Sciences) and Selina Wray (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology). UCL Brain Stories aims to showcase the best of UCL Neuroscience, highlighting the wide range of cutting-edge research going on..
Brain Stories
6M ago
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 Selina spoke to Diksha Gupta, Rick Adams, and Benedetto De Martino on all things Neuro AI.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2023-10-18T
Duration: 01:35:46
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Caswell Barry; Selina Wray
Guests: Diksha Gupta; Rick Adams; Benedetto De Martino ..read more
Brain Stories
9M ago
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.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2023-08-29
Duration: 00:38:23
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Caswell Barry; Steve Flemming
Guests: Professor Jenny Bizley
Producer: Patrick Robinson ..read more
Brain Stories
9M ago
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 underlying this.
For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2023-08-17
Duration: 00:42:40
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Selina Wray; Steve Flemming
Guests: Peter Kok
Producer: Patrick Robinson ..read more
Brain Stories
10M ago
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 information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2023-07-14
Duration: 00:41:21
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Caswell Barry ; Stephen Flemming
Guests: Professor Sarah Garfinkel
Producer: Patrick Robinson ..read more
Brain Stories
1y ago
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 dimensions, and what all this has got to do with architecture.
For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2023-01-31
Duration: 00:49:55
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Steve Flemming; Caswell Barry
Guests: Professor Kate Jeffery
Producer: Patrick Robinson ..read more
Brain Stories
1y ago
Ed Wild talks to Steve and Selina in a wide-ranging discussion about Huntington’s disease – encompassing genetics, disease mechanisms, therapeutic development and clinical trials – with some interesting stories about Sea Urchins and CAG repeats, and the Pope!
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2023-01-24
Duration: 00:57:18
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Steve Flemming; Selina Wray
Guests: Professor Ed Wild
Producer: Patrick Robinson ..read more
Brain Stories
1y ago
Tobias Hauser talks to Steve and Caswell about common misconceptions around OCD, what the "computational" means in computational psychiatry, and the reasons why teenagers might hold the key to understanding the origins of mental health problems.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2023-01-13
Duration: 00:42:17
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Caswell Barry; Steve Flemming
Guests: Tobias Hauser
Producer: Patrick Robinson ..read more
Brain Stories
1y ago
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 things that are not really there.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast ..read more
Brain Stories
1y ago
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 information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/n…in-stories-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2022-07-19
Duration: 00:56:28
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Selina Wray & Caswell Barry
Guests: Hugo Spiers
Producer: Patrick Robinson ..read more
Brain Stories
1y ago
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 visual navigation, and what brains taste like.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2022-04-13
Duration: 00:43:13
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Caswell Barry; Steve Fleming; Selina Wray
Guests: Aman Saleem
Producer: Patrick Robinson ..read more