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: 00:49:49
Language of episode: English
TAGS: as before
Presenter: Caswell Barry; Selina Wray
Guests: Professor Tali Sharot
Producer: Patrick Robinson
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.
Date of episode recording: 2024-06-14T00:00:00Z
Duration: 00:47:53
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Steve Flemming; Selina Wray
Guests: Professor Sonia Gandhi
Producer: Patrick Robinson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 an appearance.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/n…in-stories-podcast
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 intersection between climate change and neurological disease.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/n…in-stories-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2021-12-06
Duration: 15/12/21
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Caswell Barry; Steve Fleming; Selina Wray
Guests: Sanjay Sisodiya
Producer: Suzie McCarthy
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 augmentation.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/n…in-stories-podcast
Date of episode recording: 2021-11-24
Duration: 00:34:20
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Caswell Barry; Steve Fleming; Selina Wray
Guests: Professor Tamar Makin
Producer: Suzie McCarthy
