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1) A Day in the Life of a Brain

Learn more about how your brain works and howyourbrainworks.net

2) Can a change in environment really change the experience of food and drink?

Can a change in environment really change the experience of food and drink? World-first scientific experiment reveals changes in environment affects smell, taste and flavour of single malt whisky. ...

3) Why Can't We Live Together? - Miles Hewstone

Award-winning professor of social psychology at Oxford University, Miles Hewstone visits the RSA to show how 'intergroup contact' can play a fundamental role in creating peace and cohesion within our ...

4) Prevention of stroke and dementia - lecture by Prof. Peter M Rothwell

Clinical neurologist Professor Peter Rothwell outlines leading stroke and related dementia research, how it is developing earlier recognition of those at risk, improving diagnosis and developing more ...

5) Parkinson's Monument Discovery Project

Despite major research breakthroughs, there are still no treatments that can slow, stop or reverse the progression of Parkinson's. The Monument Trust Discovery Award at the University of Oxford is ...

6) Magnetic Resonance Imaging Explained

Dr D. Bulte from Oxford University's FMRIB (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain) centre explains the theory underlying today's modern MRI scanners and outlines the work of the FMRIB cen ...

7) Cognitive Health in Ageing research study

Please click on the cog icon below the screen and select 1080p HD for the best viewing experience CHA Cognitive Health in Ageing studies In a population in which the number of individuals experi ...

8) Introduction to Mindfulness

Professor Mark Williams introduces Mindfulness in the first of four short videos in this series. We live in a world filled with material wealth, live longer and healthier lives, and yet anxiety, s ...

9) Oxford Sparks: A spin around the brain

Take a journey around the brain with Ossie from Oxford Sparks. Find out more and read about the science behind the animation at www.oxfordsparks.net/mri

10) The Rhythms of Life: What your body clock means to you from eye disease to jet lag

Professor Russell Foster of Oxford University delivers The Physiological Society's Annual Public Lecture at IUPS 2013, Birmingham, UK, 22 July 2013.

11) How people with depression see faces

Professor Catherine Harmer on how understanding facial recognition can help us find better antidepressants.

12) Why do brains need to sleep?

Jeff Donlea and Diogo Pimontel, postdocs at the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, discuss some of the genes that underpin our sleep cycle: and how experimental work is helping to understand th ...

13) Understanding our memory of smells

Andrew Lin, a postdoc at the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, discusses experimental work to understand the relationship between odour and smells, using a model called sparse distributed memo ...

14) Thrive: the power of evidence-based psychological therapies

Speakers: Professor David M Clark, Professor Lord Layard, Andrew Marr Recorded on 10 July 2014 in Old Theatre, Old Building. This event marks the launch of David Clark and Richard Layard's new b ...

15) You've Got a Nerve

Most of us take movement and balance for granted, and it’s only when something goes wrong that we realise how complicated it is. In the early 1900s, an Oxford researcher called Charles Sherrington ...

16) From the Minds of Babes: New frontiers in paediatric pain

Medical professionals used to believe that babies simply don’t feel pain. Building on critical work started in Oxford in the 1980s that proved them wrong, Dr Rebeccah Slater is developing new ways t ...

17) Dorothy Bishop: Evaluating Alternative Solutions for Dyslexia

This video was first published in http://www.dystalk.com/talks/60-evaluati , which offers further information and useful links about Dyslexia. From the original de ...

18) Professor Dorothy Bishop (UK)

19) Tackling Brain Disease - Open Weeks 2015

This free public event showcased some of the brain research going on at the University of Oxford and the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. Over 250 people came along to find out more about what i ...

20) Physical Activity, Ageing and The Brain, Dr Claire Sexton - Open weeks 2015

In addition to it’s numerous benefits on physical health, physical activity has been shown to improve cognition in healthy older adults, and is also associated with lower risk for dementia. However, ...

21) How do strokes and acute illness affect thinking and memory? Prof Sarah Pendlebury - Open weeks 2015

In this talk Sarah Pendlebury discusses data showing how stroke or infection can impact on thinking and memory (cognitive function) both in the short (days) and longer term (months to years). Patient ...

22) Tackling epilepsy in the 21st Century - Arjune Sen Open weeks 2015

Epilepsy is among the most common of all neurological disorders, with one in twenty of us having a seizure at some stage in our lifetime. As epilepsy affects people across their lifespan, the socio ec ...

23) Tackling Parkinson's - Michele Hu - Open Weeks 2015

Consultant Neurologist Michele Hu outlines the work of the Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre and the research that the centre is undertaking to find a cure for the disease.

24) "Neurodevelopmental disorders: why do they co-occur?"

Here is Professor Dorothy Bishop discussing why neurodevelopmental disorders co-occur in the lecture she gave at Cardiff University on March 27th 2015. Please add your comments and do send us link ...