Dr Katherine Dyke on: Using Brain Stimulation for Tourette's Syndrome
Your Brain Uncovered with Aya Tarabeine
English - August 01, 2022 08:00 - 28 minutes - 26.6 MBSocial Sciences Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
It's thought that between 200,000 and 300,000 people in the UK have Tourette's to one degree or another. Tourette’s is a neurological condition characterised by motor and vocal “tics”; involuntary actions such as coughs, twitches, and fully articulated phrases. Now although there's no cure for Tourette syndrome, treatments are available!
In today's episode, we are joined by none other than Dr Katherine Dyke. Dr Katherine Dyke is an assistant professor in the faculty of science at the University of Nottingham. She focuses on using a range of techniques to understand the neurobiology of Tourette's Syndrome and to develop novel therapies based on this understanding. Here she will be giving us more insight into the large-scale work she is carrying out using movement-related brain oscillations to suppress tics in Tourette Syndrome.
- Dr Dyke's Academic Profile:
- https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/psychology/people/katherine.dyke
- Link to Charity:
- https://www.tourettes-action.org.uk/
- Discussed Publication:
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(20)30558-3.pdf