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.

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...

Tau positron emission tomography in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease

Mar 23, 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 Philip Insel, lead author of the article entitled: Tau positron emission tomography in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease

The article explores the utility of tau PET...

Intrinsic blood–brain barrier dysfunction contributes to multiple sclerosis pathogenesis

Feb 23, 2023

Welcome to the 10th episode of The Brain Podcast - the official podcast of the journals Brain and Brain Communications.

In this episode we speak with Hideaki Nishihara and Britta Engelhardt, lead authors of the article entitled: Intrinsic blood–brain barrier dysfunction contributes to multiple sclerosis pathogenesis

COVID-19 induces CNS cytokine expression and loss of hippocampal neurogenesis

Feb 2, 2023

Welcome to the 9th episode of The Brain Podcast - the official podcast of the journals Brain and Brain Communications.

In this episode we chat with Professor Robyn S. Klein, senior author of the article entitled: COVID-19 induces CNS cytokine expression and loss of hippocampal neurogenesis

This article explores...