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BRAINLAND

Ken Barrett

Brainland the podcast navigates the boundary between neuroscience, the arts and humanities with the occasional wander off piste. It began as a neuro-historical exploration of the background to the Brainland the opera but quickly spread its wings. A Brainland Collective production.

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105 episodes

  1. THE PROTO-PSYCHOLOGY OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE 52:05
  2. WIREHEADS: An unatural history of technology and the brain. 44:25
  3. PATTERN SEEKING: Autism, evolution and us. 52:33
  4. NEUROMANCER: Cyberpunk at 40. 53:59
  5. THE RATIO CLUB: UK cybernetics powerhouse. 1:31:12
  6. WHAT HAS GREEK TRAGEDY EVER DONE FOR US? 1:18:35
  7. HUMANISH: The many faces of anthropomorphism 33:13
  8. EXPLORING THE AUTISTIC BRAIN 48:49
  9. SPEAK! On the neuroscience of language... 43:54
  10. CHESS MASTERY AND THE ART OF THINKING SIDEWAYS 48:58
  11. THE VISIONARY FICTION OF KAREL ČAPEK 44:45
  12. CHESS HEAD: Could regular chess playing remodel your brain? 1:05:13
  13. CHALLENGING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE HUMAN: Post-humanism in literature and film 54:00
  14. FOUND IN TRANSLATION: Linguistic shape-shifting. 44:51
  15. DERRIDA'S CAT: Exploring the boundaries of the human. 44:08
  16. DOPPELGANGER: Doubles in psychiatry, neurology and fiction. 1:02:00
  17. BIOETHICS AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER 58:02
  18. POSTHUMANIST VULNERABILITY 48:55
  19. FREUD AND THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALING 1:08:42
  20. PROTO: Uncovering the shared origin of the world's most spoken languages. 42:13
  21. GEORGE SAND: The life, times and shifting reputation of an early feminist writer and thinker. 59:19
  22. TRANSHUMANISM: Humanity's great hope or the devil's work? 50:09
  23. THE MATCHBOX GIRL: Recreating Hans Asperger's world in fiction 47:21
  24. HANS ASPERGER AND THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM: Reflections on the past, present and future 42:38
  25. SEASON 2 FINALE: Surfing Brainland 30:33
  26. FRANKENSTEIN DISASSEMBLED: The remarkable life of Mary Shelley. 1:08:15
  27. DISCOVERING EISENSTEIN: Part 2 - Neuroscientific collaborations. 48:15
  28. DISCOVERING EISENSTEIN: Part 1 - Life and films. 1:00:49
  29. AN ARTIFICIAL HISTORY OF NATURAL INTELLIGENCE: Time travelling the mind. 48:53
  30. WILLIAM SARGANT AND HIS 'SLEEP ROOM': Shrinks, spooks and medical hubris. 59:11
  31. MANHANDLING THE BRAIN: How did damaging the brains of the mentally ill ever seem a good idea? 38:29
  32. THE HORROR! The anatomy of fear in film. 53:01
  33. HORROR ON THE BRAIN: The neuroscience behind sci fi and horror. 44:27
  34. DREAM WARRIORS: Exploring the world of the surrealists... 47:51
  35. DREAMWORKS: Fellini's dream obsession, from graphic diaries to movies. 54:38
  36. '...PERCHANCE TO DREAM: On the neuroscience of sleep and dreaming... 59:11
  37. MUSIC OF THE SPHERES: Exploring the strange power of plainchant. 47:42
  38. NEUROPSYCHIATRY AFTER DARK: Service development as 'social sculpture'? 42:35
  39. DANTE, DOPAMINE AND ME: Neuro-poetic and other explorations into language. 49:10
  40. 'THE BURDEN': The life and times of the Burden Neurological Institute and Hospital. 56:49
  41. GREY WALTER: Maverick genius of cybernetics and the EEG 1:02:16
  42. CIRCLING AROUND EXPLICITNESS: Adventures in the 'thatosphere'. 36:46
  43. MONTALE'S CRUCIBLE: The life, loves and poetry of an Italian Nobel Laureate. 34:04
  44. CHANGING HOW WE CHOOSE: The new science of morality. 53:34
  45. OH FOR THE WINGS OF A DOVE: From choirboy to Operatic Maestro. 1:07:57
  46. RE-ANIMATING FREUD: Sigmund at the movies 51:02
  47. NEUROCINEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Cinema creators in the act of creation. 48:18
  48. WHILE THE MUSIC LASTS: Life, loss and musicology. 41:45
  49. RE-ANIMATING FREUD: The Neuropsychoanalyst can see you now... 52:28
  50. NEUROPSYCHIATRY REVISITED: The lost tribes. 35:17