Podcasts about brain bank

On May 8, 2025 we met with Kevin Bieniek to talk about the nature of brain injury seen in chronic traumatic encephalopathy in athletes and others who experience repeated concussion. Kevin explained the commonalities and unique features of those injuries compared to neurodegenerative diseases.Guest:Kevin Bieniek, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Director of the Brain Bank at the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases at UT Health San Antonio.Participating:Melanie Carless, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSAHost:Charles Wilson, Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, UTSAThanks to James Tepper for original music

CTE is surprisingly common - but, it can only be diagnosed post-mortem, and by a forensic expert. So, how is does an examination work? And why is it so hard to have one done?  Dr Linda Iles is a forensic neuropathologist, and someone who performs post-mortem brain examinations on people every single day. What she discovers in these exams is extraordinary, and revealing of the life that person lead.  Understand how someone is diagnosed with CTE post-mortem, and the intricate details of brain examinations with host Kathryn Fox; as she chats with Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine's Dr Linda Iles.  Crime Insiders executive producer Dan Mullins presents a look back at one of our earlier episodes. For more information on CTE or if anyone you know is showing symptoms and you need support, visit the following resources:  https://www.concussionfoundation.com.au/helplineSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of The Blackprint, host Detavio Samuels sits down with creative powerhouse #DonYeTaylor. From her early days as a MySpace designer to becoming a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, DonYé shares her journey of trusting her intuition, embracing uniqueness, and redefining success on her own terms. Discover how DonYé turned setbacks into opportunities, learn about her innovative "Brain Bank" product, and gain insights into building a loyal community rather than just a following.

The National MS Brain Bank: Advancing Research - Episode 173 - Transcript In this episode, host Stephanie Buxhoeveden talks in detail with Dr. Claire Riley about the crucial role of the National MS Brain Bank in unraveling the complexities of Multiple Sclerosis through detailed Central Nervous System tissue research. It highlights the importance of this unique resource in advancing our understanding and treatment of MS.

Dr. Erik Bahn betreut die MS Brain Bank und erklärt, wie man spenden kann und wie die MS-Community von der Forschung profitiert. Alle gestellte Fragen und noch einige mehr zusammen mit den Antworten findest Du auf meinem Blog zum Nachlesen: https://ms-perspektive.de/259-ms-brain-bank Dr. Erik Bahn betreut die MS Brain Bank, an die man als MS-PatientIn sein Gehirn und Rückenmark nach dem eigenen Ableben spenden kann. Die SpenderInnen helfen dabei die Erforschung der Krankheitsmechanismen weiter voranzutreiben und damit neue Therapieansätze zu ermöglichen. Dr. Bahn erklärt, wie komplex die Multiple Sklerose ist und weshalb es so wichtig ist, noch mehr Untersuchungen durchzuführen und wie der Abgleich mit den Befunden zu Lebzeiten abläuft und welche neuen Erkenntnisse sich daraus ergeben. Natürlich sprechen wir auch über die praktischen Aspekte der Spende, wie sie abläuft und was man tun muss, um sich als SpenderIn einzutragen. Inhaltsverzeichnis Vorstellung – Wer ist Dr. Erik Bahn? MS Brain Bank – warum sie allen MS-Betroffenen hilft MS Brain Bank – Details zur Forschung MS Brain Bank – wie läuft die konkrete Spende ab Blitzlicht-Runde Verabschiedung Vorstellung – Wer ist Dr. Erik Bahn? Ich bin verheiratet, habe zwei erwachsene Kinder und mag Sport. vor allem Schwimmen, Radfahren und Wandern. Außerdem höre und mache ich selber gern Musik. Möchten sie den Hörerinnen und Hörern noch etwas mit auf dem Weg geben? Ich finde es bemerkenswert, wie viele Patientinnen sich im MS-Spenderprogramm registrieren lassen. Es gibt sehr viel neue medikamentöse Therapien, die sehr effizient den Krankheitsverlauf positiv beeinflussen können. Es besteht weiterhin noch ein sehr großes wissenschaftliches Interesse auf dem Gebiet der chronisch entzündlichen ZNS-Erkrankungen. Wo findet man sie und ihre wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten im Internet? Erika Bahn bei PubMed. --- Vielen Dank an Dr. Bahn und das KKNMS für die MS Brain Bank. Bis bald und mach das Beste aus Deinem Leben, Nele Mehr Informationen und positive Gedanken erhältst Du in meinem kostenlosen Newsletter. Hier findest Du eine Übersicht zu allen bisherigen Podcastfolgen.

The Hard Shoulder is live in Boston which has the largest Brain Bank in the world. Boston University's Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center researches the long-term consequences of repetitive brain trauma in athletes. Joining Kieran is Daniel Daneshvar, Chief of Brain Rehabilitation in Harvard Medical School to discuss.

Das Robotik-Startup Apptronik hat sich mit Mercedes-Benz zusammengetan, um fortschrittliche Robotikanwendungen im Automobilbau zu erforschen.https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/15/mercedes-begins-piloting-apptronik-humanoid-robots/ Google hat seine Gemini-KI daran gehindert, weltweit wahlbezogene Anfragen zu beantworten.https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-bans-elections-gemini Mithilfe generativer KI werden synthetische Daten für verschiedene Anwendungen erstellt.https://news.mit.edu/2024/using-generative-ai-improve-software-testing-datacebo-0305 Ein neues KI-Sprachmodell identifiziert klinische Symptome in medizinischen Zusammenfassungen.https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-ai-language-insights-brain-diseases.html Visit www.integratedaisolutions.com

Robotics startup Apptronik has partnered with Mercedes-Benz to explore advanced robotics applications in car manufacturing.https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/15/mercedes-begins-piloting-apptronik-humanoid-robots/ Google has restricted its Gemini AI from answering election-related queries globally.https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-bans-elections-gemini Generative AI is being used to create synthetic data for various applications.https://news.mit.edu/2024/using-generative-ai-improve-software-testing-datacebo-0305 A new AI language model identifies clinical symptoms in medical summaries.https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-ai-language-insights-brain-diseases.html Visit www.integratedaisolutions.com

Startup zajmujący się robotyką Apptronik nawiązał współpracę z firmą Mercedes-Benz w celu zbadania zaawansowanych zastosowań robotyki w produkcji samochodów.https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/15/mercedes-begins-piloting-apptronik-humanoid-robots/ Google ograniczył sztuczną inteligencję Gemini do odpowiadania na zapytania związane z wyborami na całym świecie.https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-bans-elections-gemini Generatywna sztuczna inteligencja jest wykorzystywana do tworzenia syntetycznych danych do różnych zastosowań.https://news.mit.edu/2024/using-generative-ai-improve-software-testing-datacebo-0305 Nowy model językowy AI identyfikuje objawy kliniczne w podsumowaniach medycznych.https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-ai-language-insights-brain-diseases.html Odwiedź www.integratedaisolutions.com

A brain researcher says anyone who's experienced repeated head injuries, or knocks, is at risk of developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.  The family of Billy Guyton, a former Blues and New Zealand Māori halfback who died last year aged 33, received a report from the Brain Bank this week after extensive testing, confirming a diagnosis of CTE. New Zealand Rugby says it is concerned about the possibility that repeated head impacts in rugby may contribute to neurodegenerative diseases in later life. It says it's supporting world-leading research on long-term impacts, including understanding any link between concussion in rugby and long-term brain health. Dr Helen Murray, who plays ice hockey for New Zealand and is a fellow at the centre for brain research at the University of Auckland, spoke to Morning Report.

The first case of its kind in New Zealand, a former Super Rugby player has been diagnosed post-death with a degenerative brain disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy.  Billy Guyton played for the Blues, Hurricanes, and Crusaders, but died in a suspected suicide aged 33.  An examination of his brain by the Neurological Foundation's Brain Bank has now identified he had stage 2 CTE.   Auckland University neuroscientist Helen Murray told Mike Hosking that CTE is caused by the repetitive accumulation of head impacts.   She says it's not necessarily the number of concussions but the number of impacts, and that might not have generated any symptoms.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is the week that a lot of us make resolutions for the coming year. And I'm hoping that after you hear my conversation with Dr. Claire Riley, many of you will resolve to become donors to the National Multiple Sclerosis Brain Bank. Resolving to donate brain and tissue to the National MS Brain Bank is a new year's resolution that goes far beyond the standard eat better and exercise more promises that so many of us make to ourselves every year. It's deeply meaningful, profoundly personal, and, as Dr. Riley describes it, it's a heroic step in choosing to play an important role in curing MS. We're also sharing the details about a partial hold that the FDA has placed on another clinical trial for an experimental MS disease-modifying therapy. And we'll share some potentially disturbing news about how artificial intelligence is being leveraged to deny patients medically necessary care. We have a lot to talk about! Are you ready for RealTalk MS??! This Week: Becoming a donor to the National MS Brain Bank  :23 FDA puts a partial hold on Phase 3 clinical trial investigating Fenebrutinib  1:23 Are health insurers using AI for all the wrong reasons?   4:49 Dr. Claire Riley discusses why you should consider being a donor to the National MS Brain Bank  8:09 Share this episode  28:40 Have you downloaded the free RealTalk MS app?  29:01 SHARE THIS EPISODE OF REALTALK MS Just copy this link & paste it into your text or email: https://realtalkms.com/331 ADD YOUR VOICE TO THE CONVERSATION I've always thought about the RealTalk MS podcast as a conversation. And this is your opportunity to join the conversation by sharing your feedback, questions, and suggestions for topics that we can discuss in future podcast episodes. Please shoot me an email or call the RealTalk MS Listener Hotline and share your thoughts! Email: jon@realtalkms.com Phone: (310) 526-2283 And don't forget to join us in the RealTalk MS Facebook group! LINKS If your podcast app doesn't allow you to click on these links, you'll find them in the show notes in the RealTalk MS app or at www.RealTalkMS.com The National Multiple Sclerosis Brain Bank https://msbraindonation.org Join the RealTalk MS Facebook Group https://facebook.com/groups/realtalkms Download the RealTalk MS App for iOS Devices https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/realtalk-ms/id1436917200 Download the RealTalk MS App for Android Deviceshttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.wizzard.android.realtalk Give RealTalk MS a rating and review http://www.realtalkms.com/review Follow RealTalk MS on Twitter, @RealTalkMS_jon, and subscribe to our newsletter at our website, RealTalkMS.com. RealTalk MS Episode 331 Guests: Dr. Claire Riley Privacy Policy

At the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, the brain bank is accepting deposits.

CTE is suprisingly common - but, it can only be diagnosed post-mortem, & by a forensic expert. So, how is does an examination work? And why is it so hard to have one done?  Dr Linda Iles is a forensic neuropathologist, and someone who performs post-mortem brain examinations on people every single day. What she discovers in these exams is extraordinary, and telling to the life that person lead.  More recently, CTE has been something she's on the look out for.  Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is a progressive degenerative brain disease typically found in individuals with a history of repetitive brain trauma, such as athletes involved in contact sports like AFL, NRL, soccer and martial arts.  Understand how someone is diagnosed post-mortem, and the intricate details of brain examinations with host Kathryn Fox; as she chats with Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine's Dr Linda Iles.  For more information on CTE or if anyone you know is showing symptoms and you need support, visit the following resources:  https://www.concussionfoundation.com.au/helpline  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You've probably heard of donating organs. You can specifically donate your brain to the Florida Brain Bank. They accept donations of healthy brains and brains that have had a diagnosis of some sort of dementia. Learn how the process works and how it is helpful for future generations.Alexandra Garnier-Mercier is our guest. Alexandra@ADRCcares.org

#neurotech #neuroethics #neuroscience James Giordano, PhD, MPhil, is a Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Biochemistry, Chief of the Neuroethics Studies Program, leads the Sub-program in Military Medical Ethics of the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics; is Special Advisor to the Brain Bank, and is Co-director of the O'Neill-Pellegrino Program in Brain Science and Global Health Law and Policy at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Brain Science, Health Promotions, and Ethics at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Coburg, Germany, and was formerly JW Fulbright Foundation Visiting Professor of Neurosciences and Neuroethics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany. Dr. Giordano is currently Fellow of the Project on Biosecurity, Technology, and Ethics at the US Naval War College, Newport, RI; chairs the Neuroethics Program of the IEEE Brain Initiative; is Senior Science Advisory Fellow of the Strategic Multilayer Assessment Branch of the Joint Staff of the Pentagon, serves as an appointed member of the Neuroethics, Legal and Social Issues, Advisory Panel of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency , and is consulting bioethicist to the Department of Defense Medical Ethics Center His ongoing research addresses the neurobiological bases of neuropsychiatric spectrum disorders; and neuroethical issues arising in and from the development, use and misuse of neuroscientific techniques and neurotechnologies in medicine, public life, global health, and military applications. In recognition of his work, he was elected to membership in the European Academy of Science and Arts and named as an Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-james-giordano-8454476 https://twitter.com/neurobioethics Kindly Subscribe to CHANGE- I M POSSIBLE - youtube channel www.youtube.com/ctipodcast

A University of Auckland-based research centre analysing the link between repetitive sports-related head injuries and degenerative brain diseases has received its first brain donations. The Sports Brain Bank is interested in former athletes who either during a game, or during training, experience repeated exercises that put pressure on their head. NFL, AFL and American football have already done some research into head injuries and the link to brain disease. Maurice Curtis is a Professor of Neuroscience at the Unversity of Auckland's Department and Co-director of the Human Brain Bank.

Brain Injury Chronicles: Dr. D. shares the stories of former WWE wrestler Chris Nowinski and former NFL player Dave Duerson, and discusses how they are both connected to the Brain Bank for concussion research. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Dr Christina Toomey, narrates her blog written for the Dementia Researcher website. Christina has worked at the Queen Square Brain Bank for Neurological Disorders for 10 years, in this post we hear about her and the work of the brain bank and how it helps researchers across the world. Find the original text, and narration here on our website. http://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk  Enjoy listening? We're always looking for new bloggers, drop us a line.

There is hope a stricter policy on head knocks could prevent rugby league players from succumbing to brain diseases later in life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Chris Nowinski, CEO and Co-founder of the concussion legacy foundation talks about the Brain Bank, and the importance of the VA to his efforts at understanding brain trauma.

There is growing evidence that multiple concussions may increase the risk of experiencing a range of diseases and cognitive impairments later in life. In latest episode of On Side we talk to former Wallabies player Peter FitzSimons, whose personal crusade against concussion started 15 years ago, Alan Pearce, Associate Professor at La Trobe University and Research Manager at Australian Sports Brain Bank (Victoria), and Paralympian Michael Milton about concussion in sport. While he admits there has been “huge progress” within the contact codes, FitzSimons says the rules are still flaunted every week. “…When you see someone clearly concussed, clearly gaga, still getting HIA (head injury assessments), which is let’s see if they’re concussed or not, and then so often they come back on the field …. Can you tell us what is was?” he asks. “Why he was wobbling at the knees, wandering all over the place. But you’ve done the head injury assessment, it wasn’t concussion, what was it? I tell you Tim we will see those cases show up in court 10 years from now. “Professional football codes have to get serious about observing the protocols.” Associate Professor Pearce, a neurophysiologist, says while sports are now starting to take concussion seriously, in terms of the long-term outcomes, there’s still a hesitancy to accept the science. “We never thought that we’d get 12 day stand down with the AFL until this year,” he said. “It’s all about small steps, it’s all about changing the attitudes of the wider community to concussion or sub-concussions, taking the injury more seriously… We will still keep calling for changes because we know that the long-term welfare will pay off in the end.” Our most success Paralympian with six gold, three silver and two bronze medals, Milton admits he competed in a different era – often without a helmet. Crashes were “a part of the sport” says the Australian downhill skiing speed record holder. “[The impacts of those crashes] is certainly a concern going forward,” he admits. “When I start to think about skiing over 6,000 days in my life, averaging a crash at least once a day, you start adding up and thinking there’s probably pretty high numbers of multiple impacts that potentially could have an issue in the future.” Our athlete educator Hayley Baker answers the question, “Do repeat offenders face tougher sanctions?”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Karen (Karle) Truman, founder of Dementia Caregiver Resources and author of the Dementia Caregiver’s Little Book of Hope talks about Huntington’s disease and finding resources for the caregiving journey.   Karen saw her own beloved mother, grandmother, and other relatives stricken with dementia but did not know what type they had.    “When people talk about the difference between Alzheimer's and dementia, I tell them that saying you have dementia is like saying that you have a brain disease. You need to find out exactly what kind of disease you have so you know exactly how to fight it and what you might be passing along to your children,” Bobbi says.   “Huntington's is inherited, so if one parent has it, their children have a 50% chance of inheriting it,” Karen explains. “There's a lot of emotional pain associated with it - it is a wasting away basically of the body.”   “I had my mother’s brain autopsied and it was one of the best gifts I could have ever given to myself because now I know exactly what she had, I know it was just Alzheimer's,” Karen explains.   The Brain Bank collects brain and tissue samples from across the United States and distributes them to investigators all over the world. A brain donation is a gift of knowledge to all of us, and it is of critical importance for our understanding of brain disorders,   Don't forget to subscribe, download, and review to share your thoughts about the show!   To find out more about Bobbi and Mike or the inspiration behind this podcast, Rodger That, head over to rodgerthat.show.

Do local sport clubs take concussion as seriously as professional leagues? Mark, a football trainer of 30 years, says teammate peer pressure is helping highlight the seriousness of a head knock.

Professor Alan Pearce from the Brain Bank talks about the risk of CTE  The first signs of CTE and early detection The autopsy of Shane tuck revealing he had a most severe case.  "It's an exposure risk, for every 10 years of playing contact sport your risk of CTE increases three fold"  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode 10 on my "Space Patrol" Playlist has Commander Corry and Cadet Happy foil the plan of the evil industrialist Krozer, to place a sick scientist under suspended animation. High adventure in the wild, vast reaches of space! The Space Binoculars (photo) were a premium offered to listeners.. "Space Patrol" has its own Playlist... more episodes to come...

In Health Suites, Claressa Monteiro spoke to Professor Richard Reynolds, Director, Brain Bank Singapore about the significance of such a facility in Singapore, its role in neurological research, and common misconceptions about organ donation. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

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Last year, Singapore’s first brain bank was launched by Nanyang Technological University Singapore’s Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. Done in partnership with the National Healthcare Group and the National Neuroscience Institute, the brain bank aims to be a resource for research into neurological disorders. To help us find out more about how Brain Bank Singapore will function and the research involved, we’ll be speaking to its director, Prof Richard Reynolds.

Last year, Singapore’s first brain bank was launched by Nanyang Technological University Singapore’s Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. Done in partnership with the National Healthcare Group and the National Neuroscience Institute, the brain bank aims to be a resource for research into neurological disorders. To help us find out more about how Brain Bank Singapore will function and the research involved, we’ll be speaking to its director, Prof Richard Reynolds.

University of Denver's Kim Gorgens on the correlation between brain injury and criminal behavior. Kevin Bieniek studies CTE in the Brain Bank at UT Health San Antonio.

Univ of Denver's Kim Gorgens on the correlation between brain injury and criminal behavior. Kevin Bieniek studies CTE in the Brain Bank at UT Health San Antonio. Philipp Heck, of the Univ of Chicago, shares new discoveries made from meteorites that fell 50 years ago. Astrophysicist Paul Sutter explains the danger of solar flares.

Neuropathologist and Director of Boston University's CTE Center, Dr. Ann McKee, joins Adam to discuss CTE or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative disease caused by repeated head injuries that affects the NFL and other sports. Dr. McKee explains just how common and devastating CTE is, why we can't yet identify CTE in living patients, and the origins of her "Brain Bank."

Co-founder and CEO of the Concussion Legacy Foundation Chris Nowinski explains the importance of having a human brain bank in New Zealand and how it will help in the further research into chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

Will Campos, Lisa Best, Caroline Bloom and Chris Sullivan join host, Dave Holmes to settle once and for all who is the best NSYNC member, Lance Bass or Joey Fatone Team Joey Fatone Caroline Bloom and Chris Sullivan Team Lance Bass Will Campos and Lisa Best This week, our contestants argue over karaoke etiquette, improvise movie theme song lyrics, and decipher terrible movie accents. Will Campos wants to plug Story Break on Maximum Fun and recommends Champions of the Earth podcast. Lisa Best wants to plug her comedy album, Brain Bank and recommends Guess I'm A Ghost. Caroline Bloom wants to plug her short film, Da Capo and recommends Jazz Nights at LACMA. Chris Sullivan wants to plug Guess I'm A Ghost and recommends Echo Park's Farmer Market. And finally, Dave Holmes is on Twitter @DaveHolmes. Find us on Twitter! We are @TroubledPod. You can also find us on Facebook . Call us on the official Troubled Waters hotline! Our number is 323-300-4984. Our producers will have a new prompt for you to answer and we may just use your call on the show. Don't want to pay those pesky international calling fees? Email us a voice memo! troubledwaterspod@gmail.com Written by Riley Silverman and John-Luke Roberts, recorded at MaxFunHQ in LA and produced by Christian Dueñas and Laura Swisher.

"The Brain Bank and The Space Binoculars". Sponsored by: Ralston cereals (Space Binoculars premium). Commander Corry foils the plan of the evil industrialist Krozer to place a sick scientist under suspended animation. This is a network, sponsored version of cat. #17557. High adventure in the wild, vast reaches of space! Missions of daring in the name of interplanetary justice! Travel into the future with Buzz Corry, commander-in-chief of the SPACE PATROL!” This is the opening invitation to children all over America and indeed adults to spend thirty minutes on a space adventure with Buzz and his assistant Cadet Happy known for his catchphrase “Smokin’ rockets”. It was their job to enforce law and order in the interplanetary frontier venturing against their archenemies in their space ship Terra V.

Hey folks, the Aliens Amongst Us seem to find things here on Earth confusing for them. They are having trouble understanding all the news about sexual harassment, taxes and the activities of their leader in the capital city. It's a new approach for them to request advice and guidance from their home planet. They want to tap into the Brain Bank back on their home planet. It's sort of like Googling for truth. Please listen and come to your own conclusions.

Hey folks, the Aliens Amongst Us seem to find things here on Earth confusing for them. They are having trouble understanding all the news about sexual harassment, taxes and the activities of their leader in the capital city. It's a new approach for them to request advice and guidance from their home planet. They want to tap into the Brain Bank back on their home planet. It's sort of like Googling for truth. Please listen and come to your own conclusions.

Brought up in a small rural town with no other connection to the fields of science or medicine Sir Richard Faull says it was growing up in a community minded family that ultimately led to him falling in love with the human brain.

Europe's largest brain bank is to be dismantled. The Corsellis Collection in west London contains tissue from 4000-6000 brains and includes a wide and unusual range of pathologies, some dating back as far as the 1950s. But now funding pressures mean that new homes must be found for as many as possible. Claudia asks which brains will be kept and hears about the value of brains without pathology. As the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 21, continues in Paris, Claudia talks to Dr Sander van der Linden in Princeton about how psychological science can help policy makers to communicate about climate change. We hear what being nominated for the All in the Mind Awards meant to last year's finalists in the groups category. And at Lancaster University English literature students have requested that trigger warnings be added to texts on their reading lists which contain potentially distressing passages. Richard McNally, Professor of psychology and expert in anxiety and trauma, talks to Claudia about the evidence. Producer: Lorna Stewart.

This month we'll be trotting the globe to open our minds! We soak up some naked brain wanderings, including visiting the banja, a Russian sauna, to be whipped by birch leaves. Plus, from the States, we'll meet the caring Robot trio, designed to help look after our increasingly elderly population, we'll visit a Brain Bank in New Zealand, keep fruit flies awake in Milan AND back in the UK meet a rocking professor who's addressing scientific gender inequality with music. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

This month we'll be trotting the globe to open our minds! We soak up some naked brain wanderings, including visiting the banja, a Russian sauna, to be whipped by birch leaves. Plus, from the States, we'll meet the caring Robot trio, designed to help look after our increasingly elderly population, we'll visit a Brain Bank in New Zealand, keep fruit flies awake in Milan AND back in the UK meet a rocking professor who's addressing scientific gender inequality with music. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

In a special show from Cambridge and New Zealand, Hannah Critchlow investigates the research into Huntington's Disease. How has the search to correct a single gene enhanced our understanding of how the brain functions? How are sheep helping to unpick the pizzle of the human mind? Plus we visit a brain bank to find out how tissue donors are supporting the scientific research. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

In a special show from Cambridge and New Zealand, Hannah Critchlow investigates the research into Huntington's Disease. How has the search to correct a single gene enhanced our understanding of how the brain functions? How are sheep helping to unpick the pizzle of the human mind? Plus we visit a brain bank to find out how tissue donors are supporting the scientific research. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Reporting from New Zealand on how a bank of frozen human brains is acting as a reference library, how a Hindu resolves religious and scientific beliefs and scientists creating human brain circuits in a dish in order to piece together the jigsaw of Huntington's Disease. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Reporting from New Zealand on how a bank of frozen human brains is acting as a reference library, how a Hindu resolves religious and scientific beliefs and scientists creating human brain circuits in a dish in order to piece together the jigsaw of Huntington's Disease. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

The Queen Square brain bank was set up by Andrew Lees, and whilst there he co-authored two of JNNP’s most highly cited papers – one on the importance of Lewy bodies in Parkinson’s, and the other on the accuracy of clinical diagnosis of the disease. Now director of the Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological studies, University College London, he discusses the changing relationship between pathologists and clinicians, and the progress he’s seen in diagnosis.Assessing response to dopamine replacement therapy is essential for diagnosing idiopathic Parkinson’s disease, and for adjusting dose. One measure is to ask the patient how they feel, others are more objective such as the UPDRS or timed tests. However a paper in this month’s issue shows they are not always correlated. First author David McGhee (clinical research fellow in the division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen) talks about the findings.And, movement disorders: where are we now? This month’s journal focuses on these conditions, so JNNP editor Matthew Kiernan and associate editors Nick Ward and Alan Carson debate the most important advances.See also:October’s JNNP: Movement disorder special http://tinyurl.com/a32m868Movement disorders: what lies beneath? http://tinyurl.com/a32m868A MODERN PERSPECTIVE ON THE TOP 100 CITED JNNP PAPERS OF ALL TIME: The relevance of the Lewy Body to the pathogenesis of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease: Accuracy of clinical diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease http://tinyurl.com/as9dq32Comparison of patient rated treatment response with measured improvement in Parkinson’s disease http://tinyurl.com/bj57hu2

Tonight Adam and Jason will be talking to Dr. Edwina Wright and Luxi regarding the Australian National NeuroAids Brain and Tissue Bank Project. Adam and Jason will also be covering some HIV and health news.

Researchers are asking hockey players to give up their brains to study the long-term impact of concussions. Christie Nicholson reports