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WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?: Memory, the brain and our sense of self.
Season 1 · Episode 36

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?: Memory, the brain and our sense of self.

In conversation with Veronica O'Keane.

BRAINLAND · Ken Barrett

October 23, 202450m 4s

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Show Notes

In this podcast Veronica O'Keane and Ken Barrett share cases and discuss some of the themes explored in Veronica's book 'A Sense of Self'. We explore the various structures in the brain essential for memory to function, talk about the importance of place to memory (we often remember where we where if not when) and recent findings on how our brain does that, the role of the frontal lobes and the hidden area of cortext called the insula, before with interesting detours into nostalgia and memory in the work of Irish writer Samuel Beckett.


Veronica O' Keane, Professor of Psychiatry, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin.

Ken Barrett, artist, writer and former neuropsychiatrist.http://www.kenbarrettstudio.co.uk/


Veronica's book 'A Sense of Self: Memory, the brain and who we are':https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324021834


Opening and closing music: Prelude to Brainland the opera by Stephen Brown.

Brainland the opera website: www.brainlandtheopera.co.uk

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Sketch by KB.


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