The Brain Podcast

The official podcast of Brain and Brain Communications

An informative and digestible podcast highlighting the rich and diverse neuroscience published in the Brain journals.

The episodes take the format of interviews with article authors and aim to be informal and enjoyable and to appeal to a broad audience, including clinicians, researchers, students, neuroscientists, neurologists and psychiatrists.

Do noradrenergic alterations in Parkinson’s disease indicate a therapeutic target? A combined PET & neuromelanin MRI study

Apr 3, 2024

Welcome to the 17th episode of The Brain Podcast - the official podcast of the journals Brain and Brain Communications.

This episode features a discussion with senior author Dr Bénédicte Ballanger of the Brain article entitled: Noradrenergic alterations in Parkinson’s disease: a combined ¹¹C-yohimbine...

Altered brain glucose metabolism as a mechanism for delirium?

Feb 14, 2024

Welcome to the 16th episode of The Brain Podcast - the official podcast of the journals Brain and Brain Communications.

We are very excited to feature a January issue Brain article, where we speak with senior author Dr Lasse M Giil entitled: Impaired glucose utilization in the brain of patients with delirium following...

Are there differences in the immune response among individuals of Black ethnicity with multiple sclerosis?

Nov 15, 2023

Welcome to the 15th episode of The Brain Podcast - the official podcast of the journals Brain and Brain Communications.

We are very excited to feature our first article from Brain Communications, where we speak with first author Dr Kiel Telesford of the article entitled: Neuron-binding antibody responses are associated...

Exploring a genetic basis for disordered speech and language: FOXP2 mutations and striatal neurons

Oct 11, 2023

Welcome to the 14th episode of The Brain Podcast - the official podcast of the journals Brain and Brain Communications.

In this episode we speak with Fu-Chin Liu, senior author of the article entitled: Speech- and language-linked FOXP2 mutation targets protein motors in striatal neurons.

This article explores a...

Multisite thalamic recordings to characterize seizure propagation in the human brain

Sep 13, 2023

Welcome to the 13th episode of The Brain Podcast - the official podcast of the journals Brain and Brain Communications.

In this episode we speak with Josef Parvizi, senior author of the article entitled: Multisite thalamic recordings to characterize seizure propagation in the human brain

This article explores the role...