ECNP Podcast series
The ECNP podcast series brings you conversations with some of the leading researchers in applied neuroscience, discussing their work, their career, their vision on the field, and why they do what they do.
- Update frequency
- every 28 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 29
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
The paradox of wealth and mental health
We are more prosperous, but mentally sicker than ever. Does prosperity bring bad luck? In this podcast Damiaan Denys and Ilse Graat discuss the paradox between greater economic wealth and the increas…
Challenges in youth mental health – awareness, prevention and access to treatment*
The COVID pandemic created a beneficial momentum in mental health research. In this podcast, Celso Arango and Aiste Lengvenyte discuss the challenges in youth mental health including awareness, preve…
Psychedelic research: the what, why and how
The use of psychedelics in the treatment of psychiatric disorders has been receiving widespread attention from the nonprofessional and scientific community for the last few years. The practice of tak…
Part two – The impact of dietary habits and physical activity on mental health
Would you like to know ‘why we just don’t do the things we know are good for us?’ listen to part two of the podcast series with Silke Matura and Veerle van Gils. Learn more on the effects of lifestyl…
Part one – PRIME time: multimorbidity of insulin-related somatic and brain diseases
In part one of the two-part podcast series, recorded during the ECNP Congress in Vienna, PhD student Veerle van Gils and senior clinical scientist and psychologist Dr Silke Matura discuss the role of…
On what it was like to be an Early Career Scientist two decades ago, comorbidities in ADHD, being part of the ECNP Network ADHD across the lifespan, and the impact of the pandemic
In this podcast Andreas Reif, past-chair of the Scientific Programme Committee, is in conversation with Early Career Advisory Panel chair Nils Opel. Andreas Reif, who studies molecular underpinnings …
On the value of scientific work, collaboration and communication, the younger generation and being a woman in science
ECNP president Gitte Knudsen talks about neurobiology, her personal career history and future plans. Additionally, she gives advice to Early Career researchers on creating a successful career without…
Mechanisms behind emotional processing and drug response in the treatment of depression and anxiety
In this episode, Catherine Harmer, the director of the Psychopharmacology and Emotional Research Lab at the University of Oxford, talks about her research path and the major findings on the mechanism…
Pilot episode – On career, research, and the renaissance of psychedelics with David Nutt
In this very first ECNP podcast, professor David Nutt, Imperial College of London, a leading expert in neuropsychopharmacology, shares his thoughts about the major findings in brain science and the f…