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Inside Neuroscience

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience

5 episodes

Why do our brains work the way they do? How are they built from cells as we develop? What happens to them as we age? How could neuroscience help with diseases such as dementia and conditions like chronic pain?

More about the show

There are over 100 neuroscience labs at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London, and these are just a handful of the questions they are trying to answer. In this podcast series, we sit down with researchers to discuss their latest research, from work on OCD to sleep in children.

Join us and learn a little bit more about how your brain works.

Episodes

  1. What does anaemia do to a developing brain?

    · 23 min

    Anaemia affects up to 37% of pregnant women worldwide,and efforts to reduce these numbers have stagnated. But how does anaemia in pregnancy impact the developing baby? And what can be done to help? Jessica Ringshaw,…

  2. How to build a virtual reality for fish

    · 11 min

    Looking at how neurons change during development is one thing, but how can we know if these changes affect behaviour? To answer this, Dr Phoebe Reynolds (former PhD student at King’s), built a virtual reality setup…

  3. How do early experiences shape how the eye develops?

    · 25 min

    Does what the eye sees in the first few days of life influence how it processes information later on? A new study from Reynolds et al., reveals that in developing zebrafish, growing up in horizontal or vertical stripey…

  4. How is compulsivity related to uncertainty?

    · 12 min

    Compulsive traits are tendencies to repeat patterned behaviours. They are often seen in psychiatric conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), addiction and eating disorders. But what drives compulsive…

  5. Can apps help children with epilepsy sleep?

    · 12 min

    Sleep problems affect more than 80% of children with neurodevelopmental disorders including epilepsy. Children who sleep poorly can have problems with learning and behaviour. It can also have a knock-on effect on the…

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