Medical Detectives (audio) Podcast
1) Prof. Peter Sandercock - Unravelling the Mystery of Stroke Disease - The Clue's in the Numbers...
Professor Peter Sandercock, Personal Chair in Medical Neurology, presents the fourth lecture in the 2014 Medical Detectives series entitled, Unravelling the Mystery of Stroke Disease - The Clue's in t...Show More
2) Prof. Aziz Sheikh - The Sign of Three: An Investigation into the Epidemic of Itch, Sneeze and Wheeze
Professor Aziz Sheikh, Professor of Primary Care Research & Development and Co-Director of the University's Centre for Population Health Scientist, delivers the third lecture in the 2014 Medical Detec...Show More
3) Dr Richard Chin - Unlocking the Mysteries of Childhood Epilepsy
Dr Chin addresses some of the major challenges in childhood epilepsy: identifying the cause, finding better treatments, and dealing with the learning and behavioural problems in epilepsy. http://www.e...Show More
4) Dr Jeffrey Schoenebeck - Doggedly Dependent: A Canine Story of Human Intervention and Form
No other terrestrial species of animal is as diverse in its morphology as man's best friend, the dog. Today more than four hundred breeds of dogs are recognized worldwide. Why and how did dogs evolve ...Show More
5) Prof. Charles ffrench-Constant - Why Doesn't the Brain Repair Itself?
Professor Charles ffrench-Constant, Professor of Multiple Sclerosis Research, presents the Medical Detectives lecture, "Why Doesn't the Brain Repair Itself?". The patient disabled by spinal cord injur...Show More
6) Prof. Stephen Lawrie - Scanning for a Diagnostic Test for Schizophrenia
Professor Stephen Lawrie, Professor of Psychiatry and Head of the Division of Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh, delivers his Medical Detectives lecture entitled "Scanning for a Diagnostic Tes...Show More
7) Prof. Stephen Wigmore - The Case of the Vanishing Yellow Man
Professor Stephen Wigmore, Professor of Transplantation Surgery and Honorary Consultant Surgeon at The University of Edinburgh, delivers his Medical Detectives lecture entitled "The Case of the Vanish...Show More
8) Dr Angela Thomas - Curing Leukaemia; Mustard Gas, Guinea Pigs and DNA
Dr Angela Thomas is an honorary senior lecturer within Child Life and Health at the University of Edinburgh. From First World War observations that mustard gas caused lymphoid tissue to dissolve and t...Show More
9) Prof Siddarthan Chandran - Stem cell research
Professor Siddharthan Chandran is Director of the Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research at the University of Edinburgh. Stem cells have heralded a revolution in research, offering g...Show More
10) Prof Brian Walker - Stress hormones and heart disease: the clue is in a mixed up colorist
Great strides have been taken in preventing and treating heart disease, yet it remains one of the biggest serial killers and our understanding of its causes is incomplete. This lecture describes how c...Show More