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Brain Stories

University College London (UCL)

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23 episodes

Episode 23- Jenny Lange on the gothic history of neuroscience, a Halloween special
2025/10/29 | 34 mins.
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 scientific experiments shaped gothic literature.
Date of episode recording: 2025-10-02
Duration: 00:47:48
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Steve Fleming, Selina Wray
Guests: Caswell Barry, Lucy Unwin
Producer: Patrick Robinson
Brain Stories Episode 22 Caswell Barry and Lucy Unwin talk about the neuroscience behind their new children’s book – Inside Your Brain
2025/10/15 | 47 mins.
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 through history to uncover ten ground breaking discoveries that led to our current understanding of how the brain works.

Date of episode recording: 2025-10-02
Duration: 00:47:48
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Steve Fleming, Selina Wray
Guests: Caswell Barry, Lucy Unwin
Producer: Patrick Robinson
Brain Stories - Episode 21: Professor Adrian Isaacs on Frontotemporal Dementia
2025/8/20 | 38 mins.
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 the role of DNA repeat expansions in disease, and why lipids might protect the brain.
Presenters: Caswell Barry and Selina Wray
Guests: Professor Adrian Isaacs
Producer: Patrick Robinson
Date of episode recording: 2025-07-28
Duration: 00:38:48
Language of episode: English
Brain Stories – Episode 20: Tali Sharot on what influences our beliefs and decision making
2024/9/09 | 49 mins.
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
Brain Stories - Episode 19: Sonia Gandhi on researching and treating Parkinson's Disease
2024/8/26 | 47 mins.
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

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About Brain Stories

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 within the Neuroscience Domain as well as bringing you the people behind the research to share their journey of how they ended up here. Each month we’ll be joined by a leading neuroscientist to offer their perspective on the big questions and challenges in Neuroscience research, to find out what stimulated their fascination with the brain and hear how they ended up becoming part of the UCL Neuroscience community. For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/brain-stories-podcast

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