Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists
76 episodes - English - Latest episode: 27 days ago - ★★★★ - 20 ratingsOpen your mind with Naked Neuroscience, the spine-tingling, interactive monthly exploration of the workings of the nervous system from the Naked Scientists.
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'Nostalgia ain't what it used to be,' with Charan Ranganath
March 28, 2024 04:05 - 26 minutes - 24 MBThis episode is an extended interview with Dr Charan Ranganath, director of the Memory and Plasticity Program and a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of California at Davis. He's also the author of the book, 'Why we remember.' James Tytko started by asking him about his love of popular music...Charan - Yes, music is a very big part of my life and, when I wrote this book, it was a very personal thing for me to be able to write something that both tracked the developmen...
Brain chips: 'Moral imperative' or a danger to liberty?
February 13, 2024 05:37 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBThis month, James Tytko explores the dangers of debunking fake news online with Francis Madden, and discusses ongoing developments in the neuroscience of Long COVID with Stephanie Brown. Then, following on from Elon Musk's news that his brain chip company Neuralink have successfully implanted their device into a human, we explore what this means for the field of computer brain interfaces... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Traumatic brain injuries: Invisible wounds of war
January 12, 2024 05:24 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBToday, we're taking a closer look at traumatic brain injuries, TBIs. We'll be hearing from the doctors who are treating them, and a former soldier who is suffering from a host of mental health conditions as a consequence of his military service.And a bit later on, we'll find out how scientists are harnessing the incredible efficiency of our brains to break new ground in computing performance... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Diverse roots: Investigating youth mental health
November 24, 2023 04:36 - 27 minutes - 24.7 MBThis time on Naked Neuroscience, James Tytko explores the miracle of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with Stephanie Brown from the University of Cambridge, including a new innovation to decrease 'scan-xiety' amongst children. Then, we'll be investigating the complexities of the current youth mental health crisis, with the help of Susanne Schweizer and Camilla Nord... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
In the brain of the beholder: Music across cultures
October 21, 2023 08:42 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBKicking off a new series of Naked Neuroscience, James Tytko serves up the latest research making waves in brain science with the help of Stephanie Brown and Francis Madden. This month, the brain networks linked with addiction, and why suppressing negative thoughts might be the best way to look after your mental health. Then, with Malinda McPherson and Alexander Jensenius, we dive deep into the rhythms and melodies from music of eclectic origins... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporti...
Inside the Mind
April 23, 2021 04:50 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBThis month we're pondering the mysterious mind - what is it? Are us humans unique in having one? And where does the brain fit in? Plus we chat over some of the latest neuroscience news with local experts... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Eating for Your Nervous System
March 25, 2021 05:53 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBWe all know that vegetables and fruits are good for us - high in fibre, lots of vitamins. But what good do they actually do the brain? Do certain foods really benefit our nervous systems? How does this work? Can food actually prevent neurological issues? Well that's what Katie Haylor wants to find out in this month's Naked Neuroscience... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
I'm soooo bored!
February 23, 2021 05:27 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBThis month - we're boring into boredom! What does it mean to be bored? Should we embrace it? Should we avoid it? How do you get through it? Stick with us to find out... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Hallucination Science
January 29, 2021 01:30 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBFrom internal vision to things that appear to go bump in the night, we're talking about hallucinations. Plus, as usual, we're joined by our local experts to digest some of the latest neuroscience news...https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hallucinations Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Dogs vs Cats: the Human-Pet Relationship
December 18, 2020 03:13 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBIt's nearly Christmas! Grab a mince pie and get comfy as this month Naked Neuroscience navigates the relationships we have with our pets. What makes some cat noises so annoying? Why are we such suckers for a cute dog? Plus, of course, some of the latest neuroscience news from our Cambridge-based experts... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
A Walk in the Park
November 20, 2020 05:40 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBThis month, take a stroll outside as Naked Neuroscience hears about the brain benefits of exercise, and the ways in which the great outdoors can do us good. Plus, as usual, we're joined by our local experts to digest some of the latest neuroscience news... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Food on the Brain
October 21, 2020 04:05 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBSnacking, craving and the microbiome! This month Naked Neuroscience looks at what's going on in the brain when we're hungry and thirsty... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Having a Laugh, Throughout Life
September 21, 2020 04:29 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBLast month, we considered animals at play. And this month, Katie Haylor is joined by a couple of guests to consider the importance of play in human animals - from little kids, right into adulthood... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Larking About: Play Science
August 26, 2020 03:37 - 34 minutes - 31.1 MBThis month and the next, we're having a laugh! We'll be getting stuck in to the science of play. What exactly is play? Why bother? And are we playing enough? Plus some of the latest from the world of neuroscience news with our local experts... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Migraine on the Brain
July 20, 2020 03:46 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBThis month, we're digging deeper into the world of headaches, asking what's going on in the brain when a migraine occurs? And meet the stripes that can do your head in... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Honing in on Headaches
June 19, 2020 03:49 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBNearly everyone has had one, with some merely a nuisance and others severely debilitating.... we're honing in on headaches in this and the next episode of Naked Neuroscience. Plus, we're talking about the latest neuroscience news with our local experts! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
The mind under lockdown
May 26, 2020 11:30 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBThis month, we're lifting the lid on the mind under lockdown. What's going on in the brain when you're having a virtual conversation, compared to one face to face? Could teenagers' mental wellbeing relate to whether they adhere to social distancing? And how to look after your mental health, whatever your situation... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Brain development - decisions, decisions...
April 21, 2020 06:28 - 39 minutes - 36 MBThis month, we're talking development and decisions. From some of the cellular decisions involved in actually making a brain, to delving into teenage decision making... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Colour on the Brain - part 2
March 20, 2020 05:38 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBThis month - Naked Neuroscience continues its colourful journey! We're exploring amazing animal colour vision, colour perception and development, and how colour relates to emotion. Plus, some of the latest neuroscience news from our local experts... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Colour on the Brain - part 1
February 21, 2020 07:05 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBBe it burnt orange, millenial pink, inky black, dusky, deep purple, colour is everywhere! Over the February and March 2020 episodes of Naked Neuroscience, we're opening up the paint box of colour. In this episode Katie Haylor will be putting her retinas to the test at the optometrists, and finding out about how we actually see colour in the first place. Plus, some neuroscience news from our local experts... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Coming off Antidepressants
January 20, 2020 02:50 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBThis month - with about 1 in 10 people in the UK on antidepressant drugs, we're asking what's it like to come off of these medications? How well is this change managed? And how can this be improved? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
When Gaming Gets Out of Control
December 20, 2019 03:34 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBThis month, we're getting to grips with gaming disorder. With the NHS's first specialist clinic to help people with gaming disorder now open, we're asking what's it like to be addicted to gaming, and what can be done to help? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Anxiety and Sex: Naked Neuroscience top up!
December 18, 2019 05:03 - 13 minutes - 12 MBWelcome to a bonus episode of Naked Neuroscience, the podcast exploring the workings of the brain and the nervous system, in our bodies and beyond. In this short show Katie Haylor chats to Anglia Ruskin University perceptual psychologist Helen Keyes and Cambridge University cognitive neuroscientist Duncan Astle about a few neuroscience news stories they looked at back in November 2019. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Go with your gut
November 20, 2019 06:09 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBThis month - we're riffing around the concept of "gut feelings". In a digestive sense, an emotional sense, and asking whether these concepts overlap at all... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Understanding addiction
October 20, 2019 10:15 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBThis month, we're dipping our toes into addiction. What exactly is addiction? Who is likely to become addicted? And what's going on in the brain? Plus, stimulating better short term memory, and linguistic tricks that might make us more susceptible to fake news... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Making moves
September 20, 2019 10:20 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBThis month - what's going on in the brain that allows us to move? How might control over our movements change as we age? And why do armies march in time with each other? We're mulling over the neuroscience of movement. Plus, we'll be taking a stroll through the latest neuroscience news, with the help of local experts. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
The Lonely Mind
August 20, 2019 05:20 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBThis month, we're unpicking the neuroscience of loneliness, asking: Why do so many of us get lonely, what's happening in the brain when we are lonely, and what can be done to help? Plus, we'll be peeling back the science on some of the latest neuroscience research, with the help of local experts Helen Keyes and Duncan Astle. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
How Do I Smell?
July 20, 2019 11:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBThis month, we're talking smelly neuroscience! Can how we smell, and what we smell like, say anything about our health? Plus, we pick apart some of the latest neuroscience papers with the help of local experts... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Getting serious on sleep
June 19, 2019 23:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBThis month - are we taking sleep seriously enough? Should we be changing the way we view it? We're talking sleep and mental health, body clocks and genes, and sleep's impact on learning and memory. Plus, we'll be diving into some neuroscience news with the help of some local experts... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Naked Neuroscience news roundup!
May 20, 2019 11:00 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBThis month - from digging into dementia, to asking "are bigger brains always better?", we've had a glut of neuroscience news harvested in the naked scientists office, so prepare for a neuroscience news round up. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Can Music be Medicine?
April 19, 2019 23:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBThis month, Naked Neuroscience is putting music therapy under the microscope. We're tuning into the therapeutic properties of tunes, asking - what actually is music therapy? What health conditions can music therapy treat? And what's it actually doing to the brain? Plus, we'll be picking apart some of the latest neuroscience research, with the help of our local experts. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Uncovering Consciousness
March 20, 2019 00:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBThis month, Naked Neuroscience is delving into the curious concept of consciousness - asking what exactly is it? Why should scientists study it? And what has the unconscious mind got to do with generating ideas? We speak to Cambridge University's Tristan Bekinschtein and scientist, screenwriter and author Leonard Mlodinow. Plus, we take a slice of the latest neuroscience news and digest it, with the help of local experts Duncan Astle from Cambridge University and Helen Keyes from Anglia Ruski...
Best Behaviour: Rolling out Change
February 20, 2019 00:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBThis month, Naked Neuroscience is back at the Rosenthal Symposuim conference on changing behaviour for the healthier, organised by the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and the US National Academy of Medicine. How can healthy behaviour changes be implemented in individuals and across a whole population? Plus, we're plucking out a couple of papers from the latest neuroscience research, with the help of some local experts. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Best Behaviour: Neuroscience and Health
January 20, 2019 00:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBThis month we're lifting the lid on health-related behaviour at the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and USA National Academy of Medicine's Rosenthal Symposium. We're asking what neuroscience can tell us about why we tend to overdo it on the cake, despite knowing we shouldn't, and looking at how understanding behaviour can help us change it for the healthier. Plus, we'll discover what's hot off the neuroscience newsreel with the help of some local experts. Like this podcast? Please help us by s...
Nerves on the Edge
December 20, 2018 00:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBThis month, we're peeling back the science of the peripheral nervous system, looking at some of the injuries it can sustain, and taking a closer look at exciting new developments on the horizon for treatment. Plus, we'll be digging into the latest neuroscience news with the help of some local experts. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
How Do We Remember?
November 20, 2018 00:00 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBThis month - what exactly is a memory? How does the brain suppress unwanted memories, and what can we do to improve our own memory? Plus, news hot off the press, and do our brains have their wires crossed? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Scary Science: Fear in the Brain
October 19, 2018 23:00 - 34 minutes - 32.1 MBThis month, we're peaking out from behind the sofa at the science of fear. Why are some of us so scared of seemingly harmless things? What's going on in the brain when we're frightened? And does cheese really give you nightmares? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Criminal Minds?
March 20, 2015 00:00 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBWhat power does science have? We explore the influence of neuroscience in the courtrooms. Could brain scans shape prison sentences? Can it predict who will re-offend? We put the brain on trial with Cambridge University's Neuroscience and Public Policy Research Initiatives. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Botox, Anybody?
February 20, 2015 00:00 - 29 minutes - 27 MBBotox injections in the nervous system, keeping brain tissue alive, and the shifting axis of scientific influence... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
A Brainy Man on a Mission
January 20, 2015 00:00 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBFrom rags to riches: how a fruit stall selling boy became a brain surgeon and, inspired by the NHS, built a community hospital and neuroscience institute back in his homeland of Kolkata. We meet the President of India who opened the institute, and speak with the patients being treated there... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
The Wanderings of a Naked Brain
December 20, 2014 00:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBThis month we'll be trotting the globe to open our minds! We soak up some naked brain wanderings, including visiting the banja, a Russian sauna, to be whipped by birch leaves. Plus, from the States, we'll meet the caring Robot trio, designed to help look after our increasingly elderly population, we'll visit a Brain Bank in New Zealand, keep fruit flies awake in Milan AND back in the UK meet a rocking professor who's addressing scientific gender inequality with music. Like this podcast? Plea...
Blame the Brain?
November 19, 2014 00:00 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBPutting the brain on trial: did your brain make you do it? Neuroscience in the courtroom exposed. Plus the dark side of new neurotechnologies and do we have free will or are our actions pre-determined? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Robots in Society
November 18, 2014 00:00 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBMeet Brian, the robot programmed to help look after the elderly. Plus we explore the role of robots in combat and in the classroom and we explore the ethics of how science shapes society. This special Naked Neuroscience podcast series, supported by the Wellcome Trust, reports from the International Neuroethics Society annual meeting at the AAAS headquarters in Washington DC and features guest robots Brian, Casper and Tangy, as well as human contributors Goldie Nejat, Barbara Sahakian, Paul Ro...
Peering into the Human Brain
November 17, 2014 00:00 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBMillions invested in brain research across the globe. It's the decade of the brain. But how will the results shape our future societies? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
The Importance of Play
October 19, 2014 23:00 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBWe examine the child brain: looking how the Victorians viewed babies, ask could early childhood stress, like changing schools, parents divorcing or having an anxious, overbearing mother, EVER be a good thing? Plus we examine the brains of young criminals and ask could brain anatomy and activity findings better inform youth rehabilitation services..... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Teenage Kicks on the Brain
September 18, 2014 23:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBDoes smoking dope decrease your potential for pleasure? How the simple act of dieting can rewire brain and a blood test for depression. Reporting from the British Association for Psychopharmacology 2014 Forum. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
A Wired Society
August 19, 2014 23:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBMemory boosting drugs, the military, the legal system and enhancing athletes mental focus and muscle tone. Where should neuroscience stop? How a revolution in technology is bringing an unprecedented flood of information about the brain and with this, concerns over use. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Remembering to live to a ripe old age
August 05, 2014 23:00 - 7 minutes - 6.5 MBHello I'm Naked Scientist Hannah Critchlow and I'm concerned about aging. Alzheimer's disease affects around half a million of us in the UK alone, and this number is predicted to increase as the population gets older. However, this week a study suggested that up to a third of cases could be preventable just by changing the way that we live. I spoke to Carol Brayne, Professor of Public Health at Cambridge University. In a collaboration spanning countries, researchers analysed data published fr...
Is your sleep account in credit?
July 07, 2014 23:00 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBFruit flies to understand getting our sleep bank account in credit, how we perceive passing of time to help make up our minds in tricky situations. Plus in the news, people prefer shocks to thought. How long could you be left alone with your thoughts? 10 seconds? A minute? Reporting from the Federation of Neurosciences Society Forum in Milan on the hot breaking neuroscience research. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Morality and Motivation
July 05, 2014 23:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBWould you kill a person to save five others? Does religion evade morality by omission? And can you tweak people's motivations? Reporting on Morality and Motivation in Milan, with breaking hot neuroscience research presented at the FENS 2014 conference. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists