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

Brain Stories is a science podcast hosted by University College London (UCL), with 23 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

University College London (UCL) hosts Brain Stories, a science show with 23 episodes published.

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  Episode #23

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

  Oct 29, 202535 minS0

  <p>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.</p><p> Date of episode recording: 2025-10-02<br> Duration: 00:47:48<br> Language of episode: English<br> Presenter: Steve Fleming, Selina Wray<br> Guests: Caswell Barry, Lucy Unwin<br> Producer: Patrick Robinson</p><p><br></p>

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  Episode #22

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

  Oct 15, 202548 minS0

  <p>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.</p><p><br> Date of episode recording: 2025-10-02<br> Duration: 00:47:48<br> Language of episode: English<br> Presenter: Steve Fleming, Selina Wray<br> Guests: Caswell Barry, Lucy Unwin<br> Producer: Patrick Robinson</p>

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  Episode #21

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

  Aug 20, 202539 minS0

  <p>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.</p><p>Presenters:  Caswell Barry and Selina Wray<br>Guests: Professor Adrian Isaacs<br>Producer: Patrick Robinson</p><p>Date of episode recording:  2025-07-28<br>Duration:  00:38:48<br>Language of episode: English </p>

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  Episode #20

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

  Sep 9, 202450 minS0

  <p>Professor Tali Sharot talks to Caswell and Selina about why we're easy to influence and overly optimistic </p><p><br> Date of episode recording: 2024-07-19T00:00:00Z<br> Duration: 00:49:49<br> Language of episode: English<br> TAGS: as before<br> Presenter: Caswell Barry; Selina Wray<br> Guests: Professor Tali Sharot<br> Producer: Patrick Robinson</p>

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  Episode #19

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

  Aug 26, 202448 minS0

  <p>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. </p><p><br> Date of episode recording: 2024-06-14T00:00:00Z<br> Duration: 00:47:53<br> Language of episode: English<br> Presenter:Steve Flemming; Selina Wray<br> Guests: Professor Sonia Gandhi<br> Producer: Patrick Robinson<br> </p>

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