Brain Health Podcast

Kim & Alessia
Brain Health Podcast

The Brain Health podcast is for brain health enthusiasts, patients, caregivers, and health care professionals, who want to learn the latest insights and science of brain health.

Episodes

  1. 09/12/2019

    S01E11 Brain healthy lifestyle - how everyday choices affect brain health

    Is health the absence of sickness, or is there more to it? This question is crucial in today’s healthcare, and nowhere more relevant than in the area of brain health. So it is no wonder that Kim and Alessia have picked to discuss it as the conclusion of this journey called BrainHealth podcast. As a co-founder and CEO of Brain+, Kim has a lot to share about the topic. The app-based cognitive rehabilitation platform his company makes is equally concerned with developing healthy ha...

    1h 6m

  2. 06/03/2019

    S01E10 The science of brain training? Issues and challenges in brain health

    What does it mean to have a healthy brain? Is brain training possible and how? Instead of focusing on a particular topic, in this episode Kim and Alessia discuss brain health in general - how we know if we possess it, what we need to protect it from, and most importantly, how to take good care of it. A long-time brain health enthusiast and an entrepreneur in the domain of digital healthcare for brain disorders, Kim has a lot to share regarding the topic - current statistics on most comm...

    47 min

  3. 05/06/2019

    S01E09 Neuroscience research for a better future

    How is the neuroscience research community responding to its increasing societal importance? Why is international cooperation essential to its progress? What can an aspiring neuroscientist hope for? FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies) is an organization trying to offer answers to questions like those. Founded in 1998, FENS has since then grown into a huge network representing 22 000 scientists in 33 European countries. They facilitate knowledge exchange and application,...

    55 min

  4. 04/08/2019

    S01E08 “Use your brain”: On depression and neuroplasticity

    What does depression do to our brain and can antidepressants help? This topic, abound with misconceptions and controversy, is becoming more relevant as depressive disorder climbs on the list of greatest health burdens. To find out what current research is showing, Kim and Alessia talk to Eero Castren, a professor at the University of Helsinki and a principal investigator at the Neuroscience Center there. A trained medical doctor with a PhD in neuropharmacology, our guest has a remarka...

    50 min

  5. 03/25/2019

    S01E07 “People don’t see them ill”: Stigma and invisibility of neurological disorders

    1 in 3 people will at some point in their life suffer from a brain disorder, according to the Global Burden of Disease report and this number might be growing. Understanding these conditions has, therefore, become more important than ever. Donna Walsh, a patient advocate, tells us about daily challenges of people suffering from brain diseases and neurological conditions, including productivity issues and mental illness stigma. She also discusses the broader socioeconomic implications, and the...

    40 min

  6. 03/04/2019

    S01E06 Are you overworking your brain? Mental workload and mental fatigue

    Is work in the world of digital technology really easier than hard manual work? Or is it just that we do not yet truly understand the nature and consequences of cognitive fatigue? To answer these and many other questions concerning workers of the digital age, the BrainHealth Podcast team interviews Max L. Wilson, Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, Nottingham University. Wilson comes from the emerging field of human-computer interaction (HCI) and is especially interested in...

    57 min

  7. 02/18/2019

    S01E05 Dopamine - neurotransmitter that gets us going

    Thanks to pop culture, dopamine is commonly associated with pleasure-seeking and addiction, but its function goes way beyond that. Despite the fact that only about 400 000 out of 10 billion neurons in our brain produce it, the importance of natural dopamine for our survival is tremendous. It is responsible for us making a difference between what is good and what is bad for us, our ability to compare expectations to reality, but also for basic functions like physical movement. And it’s n...

    57 min

  8. 02/04/2019

    S01E04 “Allowing the brain and the mind to repair itself”: Recovery after trauma

    The phrase psychological trauma can be roughly translated as “the wound of the soul”. Contemporary neuropsychology shows us that the wound is not metaphorical, as this poetic-sounding phrase might suggest, but rather a real one, detectable in the brain’s neural networks. To understand what these wounds look like, how we acquire them, and what we can do about them, the Brain Health podcast team interviews a practitioner of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR), Isa...

    1h 4m

  9. 01/19/2019

    S01E03 “Like Russian roulette”: Life with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis

    Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a central nervous system disorder that an estimated 2.3 million people around the globe live with. To help us understand this often unpredictable condition and life with it, we interview Alexandre Guedes da Silva, the director and vice-president of Multiple Sclerosis Society of Portugal (SPEM). SPEM is a member organization of the broader European Multiple Sclerosis Platform (EMSP), an association founded in 1989 in order to make sure the patients with multipl...

    57 min

  10. 01/19/2019

    S01E02 Our future with brain disorders: Advocating for a "paradigm shift"

    Brain disorders are becoming more and more prevalent in the population. Kim’s and Alessia’s guest - Frédéric Destrebecq, executive director of European Brain Council (EBC) - is here to tell us about how society can cope with this tendency, discussing prevention and treatment of brain diseases as well as topics like effects of depression, mental illness stigma, stress disorders and burnout syndrome. European Brain Council is a non-profit organization that brings together patient as...

    56 min

  11. 01/19/2019

    S01E01 Mysteries of sleep: The often neglected third of our lives

    In this episode of the Brain Health podcast, Alessia and Kim talk to Jo Solet, a sleep researcher. Together, they delve into the mysteries of sleep, its significance, and ways to improve brain health through sleep. Jo Solet, PhD., is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a trained clinician and researcher. Throughout her fruitful career, she has worked with Cambridge Health Alliance and Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is known f...

    1h 10m
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The Brain Health podcast is for brain health enthusiasts, patients, caregivers, and health care professionals, who want to learn the latest insights and science of brain health.

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  • Creator
    Kim & Alessia
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    11
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    © 2024 Brain Health Podcast
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