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Hosted by Dr Aalap Asurlekar · education · EN-GB · 47 episodes
Welcome to MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials, the award-winning revision podcast for psychiatry trainees. Winner of the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) Award for Excellence 2026. I'm Dr Aalap Asurlekar, a Psychiatry Trainee in the UK and the creator of this podcast. Having experienced firsthand the challenge of preparing for the MRCPsych exams alongside full-time clinical work, I created this podcast to make high-quality, structured revision more accessible. Each episode focuses on key syllabus topics, explained in clear and structured language to help you understand and retain the most important concepts. Whether you are a psychiatry trainee preparing for Paper A, B, or CASC, a medical student looking to strengthen your psychiatry knowledge, or simply curious about how the mind works and how mental health conditions are understood and treated, this podcast is designed to fit around your schedule. Episodes
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials, the award-winning revision podcast for psychiatry trainees. Winner of the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) Award for Excellence 2026. I'm Dr Aalap Asurlekar, a Psychiatry Trainee in the UK and the creator of this podcast.
MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials is hosted by Dr Aalap Asurlekar. The show has published 47 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "47. Acting Out Your Dreams: REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder and the Early Warning Sign of Parkinson's" (19 October 2026, 19 minutes), "45. The Sleeping Beauty Syndrome: Kleine-Levin Syndrome and Sleeping for Weeks" (5 October 2026, 20 minutes), and "44. Falling Asleep Without Warning: Narcolepsy, Cataplexy and Orexin" (28 September 2026, 17 minutes).
MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 17 minutes across 47 episodes.
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Dr Aalap Asurlekar hosts MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials, an education show with 47 episodes published.
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Episode #47
Why would someone punch, kick or leap out of bed in the middle of a dream, and why might it be a warning sign of Parkinson's disease years later? In this episode, we close our five-part series on sleep disorders with...
Episode #45
What if you slept twenty hours a day for weeks at a time, then woke up with barely any memory of it? In this episode, we explore Kleine-Levin syndrome, the rare recurrent hypersomnia nicknamed Sleeping Beauty syndrome...
Episode #44
What happens in the brain when a burst of laughter makes your knees give way, while you stay completely awake? In this episode, we explore narcolepsy through the lens of the brain's sleep-wake circuitry. We cover the...
Episode #41
When a mother kills her own child while acutely mentally ill, is that murder, or is it an illness? The mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case has put that exact question back in the headlines. Part 2 of 2. In our last...
Episode #40
What if the same hormones that helped grow and deliver a healthy baby could, in a small number of women, also trigger a complete break from reality within days of giving birth? Part 1 of 2; Postpartum psychosis has been...
Episode #39
Every night, your brain spends part of its time paralysed and hallucinating, in a state that looks almost exactly like being awake. That's REM sleep, and it happens to all of us. In this episode, we cover the structure...
Episode #38
Why can a radar operator miss an obvious blip after two hours on shift, but catch it easily in the first ten minutes? The problem isn't their eyesight, it's how alertness itself behaves over time. We look at how the...
Episode #37
What if your mind wasn't one thing, but three, constantly negotiating with each other? One wants, one restrains, and one judges. That's Freud's structural model of the mind: the id, ego and superego. In this episode, we...
Episode #36
What do you call someone who forgets you entirely, then confidently tells you something that never happened? That's a patient with Korsakoff's syndrome. They can hold a normal conversation with you, then forget you were...
Episode #35
Have you ever driven somewhere familiar and arrived with no memory of the journey itself? Something in your mind was clearly steering the car. It just wasn't the part you'd call "you." In this episode, we begin a new...
Episode #34
Why do some people recover from adversity while others do not? What does resilience have to do with this? In this episode, we explore the psychology of resilience. We cover definitions of resilience, landmark research...
Episode #33
Do you believe that what happens to you is within your control, or largely down to chance? The answer to that question shapes how you respond to stress, setbacks and illness. In this episode, we explore three related...
Episode #32
Stress is not something that simply happens to you. How you interpret and respond to a stressful situation is just as important as the situation itself. In this episode, we explore Richard Lazarus and Susan Folkman's...
Episode #31
Two people can experience the same stressful event and respond in completely different ways. One develops depression; the other seems unaffected. Why? In this episode, we explore the factors that determine individual...
Episode #30
What happens when trauma is not a single event, but the air someone has breathed their entire life? In this episode, we explore complex PTSD. This is the ICD-11 diagnosis that captures the lasting impact of prolonged...
Episode #29
Why does a sound, a smell or a flash of light have the power to pull someone back into the worst moment of their life, years after it happened? In this episode, we explore post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in depth...
Episode #26
<p>We all talk about feeling stressed, but what is actually happening inside the body when stress strikes?</p><p>In this episode, we explore the physiology and psychology of stress. We cover Hans Selye's landmark...
Episode #25
<p>Can the same emotion mean something different depending on who is feeling it, or where in the world they live? And does being more emotionally aroused always mean you perform better?</p><p>In this episode, we explore...
Episode #24
<p>Can the same physical sensation produce completely different emotions? Schachter and Singer proved that it could, using nothing more than an adrenaline injection.</p><p>In this episode, we explore cognitive appraisal...
Episode #23
<p>What if your fear and your racing heart arrive at exactly the same moment, neither one causing the other?</p><p>In this episode, we explore the Cannon-Bard theory as a direct challenge to the James-Lange theory. We...
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