Our archived BRΛINCAST webinars
Date & time: Monday, June 14, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: The Female Brain
Guest speaker: Dr. Marija Kundakovic, Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University (NYC, USA)
Date & time: Monday, June 07, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Functional Neurological Disorders
Guest speakers: Professors Alan Carson (Neuropsychiatry) and Jon Stone (Neurology), University of Edinburgh
Date & time: Monday, May 24, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Benzodiazepines
Guest speaker: Professor Edward K. Silberman
Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts Medical Centre, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
Date & time: Monday, May 17, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Suicide
Guest speaker: Professor Gustavo Turecki, MD PhD, Chair Department of Psychiatry, McGill University (Montreal, Canada), Scientific Director Douglas Institute
Date & time: Monday, 26 April, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Headache
Guest speaker: Professor Peter Goadsby, The Brain Prize 2021
Director of the National Institute for Health Research-Wellcome Trust King’s Clinical Research Facility (NIHR CRF) Pain Research theme lead at the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Honorary Consultant Neurologist at King’s College Hospital and Great Ormond Street
Date & time: Monday, April 19th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Imaging Cognition
Guest speaker: Professor Aristotle Voineskos, MD, PhD, FRCP(C)
Date & time: Monday, April 12th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Eating Disorder
Guest speaker: Professor Nadia Micali, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Date & time: Monday, March 29th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Alzheimer’s not as typical as you think
Guest speaker: Dr Melissa E Murray
Date & time: Monday, March 22, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: About Race: ethnic inequalities in mental health
Guest speaker: Professor James Nazroo, PhD, MBBS FBA FaCSS; Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, Deputy Director of the ESRC Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), co-Director of the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA)
Date & time: Monday March 15, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Symptoms in the mind: are we doing a good job describing them?
Guest speaker: Professor Femi Oyebode, Institute of Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham
Date & time: Monday, March 08, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Gaming Addiction
Guest speaker: Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Founder and Director of the National centre for Gaming Disorders, the first and only NHS clinic to treat Gaming Disorder https://henriettabowdenjones.com
Date & time: Monday March 01st, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Mental Health in the Ancient Times
Guest speaker: Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid, Assyriologist, Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College (University of Oxford) https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/person/moudhy-al-rashid
Date & time: Monday, 22nd February, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: World Encephalitis Day: Experts take over!
Guest speakers: Professor Tom Solomon, Professor of Neurology at the University of Liverpool and Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, and host of the Scouse Science podcast
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Dr Tom Pollak, PhD, MRCPsych, NIHR Clinical Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, Specialty Registrar general adult psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Date & time: Monday February 15th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: “What about our children?”: education and mental health
Guest speaker: Dr Tamsin Ford CBE, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
Date & time: Monday, 08th February, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Unlocking the mysteries of Catatonia
Guest speaker: Dr Jonathan Rogers, MRCP MRCPsych, Wellcome Trust Clinical Training Fellow & Specialty Registrar, UCL Division of Psychiatry & SLaM
Date & time: Monday, 01st February, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: “Get Your Body Moving!”, Exercise + Mental Health
Guest speaker: Dr Brendon Stubbs, Head of Physiotherapy, SLaM and NIHR Clinical Lecturer in the department of Psychological Medicine, IoPPN, KCL
Date & time: Monday, 25th January, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Health Economics, the ally you never thought you had!
Guest speaker: Professor Sarah Byford, Head of King’s Health Economics and Deputy Head of the Health Service & Population Research Department at the IoPPN, KCL
Date & time: Monday, 18th January, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Domestic Violence and Mental Health
Guest speaker: Professor Louise Howard, Professor in Women’s Mental Health and Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist, NIHR Senior Investigator (2019-23), President-elect of the International Marcé Society
Date & Time: Monday December 14th, 1pm-1.30pm
Title: LGBT+, beyond the rainbow
Guest speaker: Dr Mike Farquhar, Consultant in Sleep Medicine, Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Date & time: Monday December 7th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Eat Yourself Happier: Nutritional Psychiatry
Guest speaker: Professor Felice Jacka, Director, Food and Mood Centre, IMPACT, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, President, International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research (ISNPR)
Date & time: Monday November 30th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Precision Psychiatry
Guest speaker: Professor Andrea Cipriani, MD PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
Date & time: Monday November 23rd, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Deep Brain Stimulation: The Memory Chapter
Guest speaker: Dr Wissam Deeb, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Group, USA
Date & time: Monday November 16th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Your brain on a dish…stem cells in Psychiatry!
Guest speaker: Professor Jack Price, Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience
Date & time: Monday November 09th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: The Virus and The Brain: neuropsychiatric complications of COVID-19
Guest speaker: Dr Tim Nicholson, Clinical Lecturer, IoPPN
Date & time: Monday November 02nd, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Physical Health ↔ Mental Health
Guest speaker: Dr Toby Pillinger, MRCP PhD, Department of Psychosis Studies, IoPPN, KCL and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Date & time: Monday October 26th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Tics: blinking, jerking, clicking, coughing and beyond
Guest speaker: Dr Christos Ganos, Movement Disorders and Body Control Lab, Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Unit at Department of Neurology, Charité, University Medicine, Berlin
Date & time: Monday October 19th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: “EXCITED”: Glutamate in schizophrenia; treatment target or biomarker?
Guest speaker: Dr Kate Merritt, Research Fellow, Division of Psychiatry, UCL
Date & time: Monday October 12th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Ayahuasca, Psilocybin and the Peruvian Amazon
Guest speaker: Dr Simon Ruffell, Senior Research Associate – The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London
Date & time: Monday October 5th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Love thy sleep!
Guest speaker: Dr Guy Leschziner, MA PHD FRCP, Consultant Neurologist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, London Bridge Hospital and the Cromwell Hospital
Date & time: Monday September 28th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Emotions, Molecules and Psychosis: translational neuroscience and psychopathology
Guest speaker: Dr Gemma Modinos, Sir Henry Dale Fellow, IoPPN, KCL
Date & time: Monday September 21, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Illegal Drugs as Treatment in Psychiatry
Guest speaker: Professor David Nutt, DM, FRCP, FRCPSYCH, FSB, FMEDSCI, The Edmond J Safra Chair in Neuropsychopharmacology, Imperial College London
Date & time: Monday 14th September, 1pm – 1.30pm
Topic: “I can’t help it…”, Impulse Control Disorders
Guest speaker: David Okai, Clinical Lead for Maudsley Neuropsychiatry, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Date & time: Monday September 7th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Talking Lebanon with The Wounded Healer
Guest speaker: Dr Ahmed Hankir MBChB MRCPsych, Senior Research Fellow, Author of The Wounded Healer.
Date & time: Monday July 27th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Let The Music Do The Healing
Guest speaker: Shabaka Hutchings, Jazz Musician, Sons of Kemet
Date & time: Monday July 20th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Addicted
Guest speaker: Dr Emmert Roberts, MRC Clinical Research Fellow (IoPPN) and Hon. Specialist Registrar in Substance Misuse Psychiatry (SLaM)
Date & time: Monday July 13th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: “From OCD to FND”: the multiple facets of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Guest speaker: Professor Trudie Chalder, Professor of Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy , IoPPN
Date & time: Monday July 6th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Forensics In The Pandemic
Guest speaker: Dr Shubulade (Lade) Smith, Clinical Director for the Forensic Service, SLaM
Date & Time: Monday June 29th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Dear Madam President,…
Guest Speaker: Professor Wendy Burn, President of Royal College of Psychiatrists
Date & Time: Monday June 22nd , 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Cannabis in lockdown times…
Guest Speaker: Dr Marta Di Forti, MD, PhD, BRC Senior Clinical Lecturer, Dept of Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry, IoPPN
Date & time: Monday June 15th, 1pm – 1.30pm
Title: Let’s talk about death
Guest speaker: Dr Christian Schulz-Quach, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
Date Aired: Monday 8th June, 2020
Title: Guns, suicides and the pandemic in the USA!
Guest speaker: Dr Paul Nestadt, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Date aired: Monday 1st June, 2020
Title: “Is it possible not to talk about the pandemic?”: the impact on mental health services, academia and…me
Guest speaker: Professor Sir Simon Wessely
Date aired: Tuesday 26th May, 2020
Title: The ethics of pandemics
Guest speaker: Dr Sridhar Venkatapuram
Date aired: Tuesday 19th May, 2020
Title: Immunopsychiatry, infections inflammation & the link with mental health
Guest Speaker: Professor Michael Eriksen Benros
Date aired: Tuesday 12th May, 2020
Title: The Psychopharmacology of Covid-1
Guest Speaker: Dr Siobhan Gee
Date aired: Tuesday 5th May, 2020
Title: The psychiatric presentations of coronavirus outbreaks
Guest Speaker: Dr Jonathan Rogers
Date aired: Tuesday 28th April, 2020
Title: The neuropsychiatric legacy of pandemic influenza
Guest Speaker: Dr Thomas Pollak