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.

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...

A genome-wide association study in autoimmune neurological syndromes with anti-GAD65 autoantibodies

Aug 14, 2023

Welcome to the 12th episode of The Brain Podcast - the official podcast of the journals Brain and Brain Communications.

In this episode we speak with Nico Melzer, senior author of the article entitled: A genome-wide association study in autoimmune neurological syndromes with anti-GAD65 autoantibodies

This article...

RNA profiling of human dorsal root ganglia reveals sex differences in mechanisms promoting neuropathic pain

Jul 5, 2023

Welcome to the 11th episode of The Brain Podcast - the official podcast of the journals Brain and Brain Communications.

In this episode we speak with Ted Price, senior author of the article entitled: RNA profiling of human dorsal root ganglia (DRG) reveals sex differences in mechanisms promoting neuropathic pain

This...