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JNNP Podcast
The Journal of Neurology, Neuroscience and Psychiatry (JNNP) Podcast is proud to reflect JNNP’s ambition to publish the most ground-breaking and cutting-edge research from around the world - jnnp.bmj.com. Encompassing the entire genre of neurological sciences, our focus is on the common disorders (stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, peripheral neuropathy, subarachnoid haemorrhage and neuropsychiatry), but with a keen interest in the Gordian knots that present themselves in the field, such as ALS. Join Dr. Saima Chaudhry as she hosts in-depth interviews with authors, providing a deeper understanding of their work and shedding new light on their findings. Stay informed with expert discussions and cutting-edge information by subscribing or listening on your favourite podcast platform.
Episodes
Monday Feb 18, 2013
Monday Feb 18, 2013
Selma Aybek, clinician researcher, Service of Neurology, University of Lausanne, has been examining the process which allows psychological stressors to become physical symptoms in conversion disorder. Chris Butler, academic clinical lecturer in neurology, University of Oxford, asks her what she’s found.This podcast was recorded at the British NeuroPsychiatry Association’s 2013 AGM. For more information on the association and next year’s meeting, see bnpa.org.uk.
Monday Feb 18, 2013
Monday Feb 18, 2013
Cliodhna Carroll, along with colleagues at the University of Cambridge, has shown that children who’ve had a posterior fossa tumour have a lower IQ than matched controls. She talks Chris Butler, academic clinical lecturer in neurology, University of Oxford, through the research and its implications.This podcast was recorded at the British NeuroPsychiatry Association’s 2013 AGM. For more information on the association and next year’s meeting, see bnpa.org.uk.
Monday Feb 18, 2013
Monday Feb 18, 2013
Chris Butler, academic clinical lecturer in neurology, University of Oxford, talks to Rebecca Cleary, research assistant, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuro-imaging, UCL, about her research investigating whether the neural substrate in those with depression or anxiety is the same as in those with one of these disorders and also temporal lobe epilepsy.This podcast was recorded at the British NeuroPsychiatry Association’s 2013 AGM. For more information on the association and next year’s meeting, see bnpa.org.uk.
Monday Feb 18, 2013
Monday Feb 18, 2013
Neil Greenberg, academic psychiatrist, Kings College London, who’s served in the armed forces for more than 20 years, argued in his JNNP-sponsored keynote at BNPA that we understand many of the issues in military mental health, and that the neuropsychiatric element is relatively small. Alan Carson, JNNP associate editor, talks to him about the impact of being in the military on mental health beyond PTSD.This podcast was recorded at the British NeuroPsychiatry Association’s 2013 AGM. For more information on the association and next year’s meeting, see bnpa.org.uk.
Monday Feb 18, 2013
Monday Feb 18, 2013
David Skuse, professor in the Behavioural Sciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, talks to Jeremy Hall, professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of Cardiff, about his work investigating the link between childhood stress and borderline personality disorder.This podcast was recorded at the British NeuroPsychiatry Association’s 2013 AGM. For more information on the association and next year’s meeting, see bnpa.org.uk.
Monday Feb 18, 2013
Monday Feb 18, 2013
Alan Carson, JNNP associate editor, talks to Neil Harrison, consultant neuropsychiatrist and head of psychoneuroimmunology, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, about what we currently know about inflammation in mental disorders. Dr Harrison also discusses the potential of anti-inflammatories to treat depression.This podcast was recorded at the British NeuroPsychiatry Association’s 2013 AGM. For more information on the association and next year’s meeting, see bnpa.org.uk.
Monday Feb 18, 2013
Monday Feb 18, 2013
David Skuse, professor in the Behavioural Sciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, asks Chris Brewin, professor of clinical psychology, UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences, about the different forms of PTSD experience, the cognitive processes involved, and how understanding these could inform psychological therapies for the condition.This podcast was recorded at the British NeuroPsychiatry Association’s 2013 AGM. For more information on the association and next year’s meeting, see bnpa.org.uk.
Monday Feb 18, 2013
Monday Feb 18, 2013
The human response to threat requires comprehensive change in the network properties of the brain, with the whole organ affected. Alan Carson, JNNP associate editor, asks Guillén Fernández, director of the Donders Center for Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, about his work investigating the effects of stressors on brain structure and function.This podcast was recorded at the British NeuroPsychiatry Association’s 2013 AGM. For more information on the association and next year’s meeting, see bnpa.org.uk.
Friday Feb 15, 2013
Friday Feb 15, 2013
In the last JNNP podcast of 2012, we look at what jelly beans and the Andalucian mountains have done for neurology and psychiatry.Alan Emery, emeritus professor, Green Temple College, University of Oxford, describes studying the family that led him to delineate Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.And Jason Warren and Rohani Omar, UCL Institute of Neurology, talk about what their study into flavour identification in frontotemporal lobar degeneration reveals.See also:Impact commentary: Unusual type of benign X linked muscular dystrophy http://tinyurl.com/aszzjtyOriginal paper: Unusual type of benign X linked muscular dystrophy http://tinyurl.com/bjadyodFlavour identification in frontotemporal lobar degeneration http://tinyurl.com/a8zh35u
Friday Feb 15, 2013
Friday Feb 15, 2013
This month, Mark Richardson, professor of epilepsy, Kings College London, relates his vision for the future of epilepsy research (1.07).Alexander Leff, consultant neurologist, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, discusses his online tool for diagnosing and providing treatment for hemianopia, the visual impairment which can follow stroke or brain injury (14.07).And measuring sensory nerve conduction. Tom Sears, emeritus professor of neurophysiology, King’s College London, recalls the beginnings of the technique (22.39).See also:Large scale brain models of epilepsy: dynamics meets connectomics http://tinyurl.com/ab6ggfhA ‘web app’ for diagnosing hemianopia http://tinyurl.com/ahca28xRead-Right http://tinyurl.com/37f3y3kEye-Search http://tinyurl.com/af3fsz2Sensory nerve action potentials in patients with peripheral lesions http://tinyurl.com/a7rsj4s