Pint of Science 2018 - Neuro-Calendar

Events by region and date

Greater London

Monday - 14th May 

• 19:00 - 21:00, The Coat and Badge, London – How to predict a person’s honesty using urine?
  ‘How to predict a person’s honesty from a urine sample’ – Volker Behrends
  ‘The Making of Mental Disorder’ – Dr James Davies 
• 19:30 - 21:00, The Jam Tree, London – Concussion to catastrophe
  ‘Concussions are confusing us all’ – Professor David Sharp
  ‘Emergency pre-hospital medicine’ – Professor Mark Wilson 
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Water Rats, London – Illusions
  ‘Experiencing the Impossible: Why magic works’ – Dr Gustav Kuhn
  ‘Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Whose is the Body of the Them All?’ – Dr Aikaterini Fotopoulou
  ‘Tingling under pressure: How a Chinese pepper can reveal interactions between different skin receptors’ – Dr Antonio Cataldo 
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Roebuck, London – ****, that hurts!
  ‘Pain: why does it hurt so much?’ – Professor Stephen McMahon
  ‘Swearing is good for you, the amazing science of bad language’ – Dr Emma Byrne
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Joker, London – A Pint of Emotions
  ‘The Immune system is the mirror of our emotions and experiences’ – Professor Fulvio D'Acquisto
  ‘Are you more impulsive that a fish’ – Dr Caroline Brennan 
• 19:30 - 21:30, Market House, London – The Modern Face of Mental Health
  ‘Stigma: enough is enough!’ – Professor Sir Graham Thornicroft
  ‘Sticks and stones: how bullying affects mental health’ – Professor Louise Arseneault 
  'Young, social and lonely' - Dr Tim Matthews
• 19:30 - 22:00, The Griff Inn, London – The Brain Storm 
  ‘Eat your way to recovery’ – Dr Orli Thau-Zuchman
  ‘Thirty-five grams of spinal cord taken for granted that can break in a dreadful snap: New hope for full repair?’ – Dr Patrick Pallier 
   

Tuesday - 15th May 

• 19:30 - 21:00, The Jam Tree, London – AI for improving our own minds 
  ‘Understanding the human mind without a human mind: The AI neuroscientist’ – Dr Romy Lorenz
  ‘Developing neural networks in computer science’ – Marta Garnelo
  'Imaging the Self' - Mica Clarke 
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Water Rats, London – ‘The Self’ and frontotemporal dementia?
  ‘Introduction to FTD’ – Dr Jonathan Rohrer
  ‘The Self and social cognition’ – Lucy Russel
  'Imaging the Self' - Mica Clarke 
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Roebuck, London – What is your gut feeling?
  ‘Busting BMI by nourishing gut-brain communication’ – Dr Gavin Bewick
  ‘Tasty sounds: listen to your mouth music’ – Professor Charles Spence
• 19:30 - 21:30, Market House, London – Therapy in the 21st Century 
  ‘Therapygenetics: Which psychological treatments work for whom and why?’ – Professor Thalia Eley
  ‘Virtual Reality for Mental Health: Bringing Reality into the Lab’ – Dr Lucia Valmaggia 
• 19:30 - 22:00, The Griff, London – London I love you, but you’re bringing me down?
  ‘Your host for the night’ – Tom Feilden
  ‘The Madding Crowd: does urban living affect psychosis risk?’ – Dr James Kirkbride
  'How can the built environment improve public mental health?' - Dr Layla McCay 
  'A Day in the Life: London and mental health' - Mark Brown 
   

Wednesday - 16th May

• 19:00 - 21:00, The Coat and Badge, London – Your body is a walking home of bacteria!
  ‘You are mainly microbe…Meet your gut bacteria!’ – Adele Costabile
  ‘Metagenomic sequencing - the future is here!’ – Taichi Ochi 
• 19:30 - 21:00, The Jam Tree, London – Psychedelic drugs and the brain?
  ‘Time for a new Enlightenment: reforming the drug laws for research and clinical benefit' – Professor David Nutt
  ‘Psychedelics in neuroscience and psychiatry’ – Dr Robin Carhart-Harris 
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Roebuck, London – Innovate to Innervate?
  ‘Using rats and robots to find therapies for brain injury’ – Dr Lawerence Moon 
  ‘Picture the nervous system: What live microscopy can tell us about neurons’ – Dr Kim Chisholm
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Joker, London – A Pint of Memory 
  ‘What is the biological basis of memory impairment in Alzheimer's disease?’ – Professor Peter Giese 
  ‘Building a brain in a dish: how can stem cells help us understand dementia?’ – Dr Selina Wray 
• 19:30 - 21:30, Market House, London – Drugs and Mental Health: Helpful or Harmful? 
  ‘Hallucinogenics and the brain’ – Dr Chris Timmermann
  ‘Senscapes: where art meets neuroscience’ – Joe Barnby 
• 19:30 - 22:00, The Griff, London – If They Say Why, Tell Them That It's Human Nature
  ‘Self-loving self-injury: the many guises of narcissism’ – Dr Mark Freestone
  ‘Building resilience in young refugees?’ – Dr Kristin Hadfield 
   

South East

Monday - 14th May 

• 19:00 - 22:00, Good Intent, Rochester – Coping with brain dysfunction & computers for creativity
  ‘The Science of Creativity' – Anna Jordanous
  ‘This conversion is electric : Comprehension of speech and language’ – Fern Rodgers
  'Tackling Parkinson's Diseade with exercise - Can you hit back?' - Anna Ferrusola-Pastrana
• 19:30 - 21:00, The Three Guineas, Reading – Hack the Senses, Cyborgs, and Mind Control!
  ‘Brain Plasticity and Sensory Superpowers’ – Karl Sanz Martinez 
  'Technology and Mind Control?' - Dr Ioannis Dimitrios Zoulias
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Tramstop Bar and Kitchen, Southampton – Understanding Our Fragile Brain
  ‘A link between diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease’ – Dr Shreyasi Chatterjee
  ‘Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias’ – Dr Amrit Mudher
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Barley Mow, Portsmouth – Drown Your Sorrows
  ‘Stress: From the Stone Age to the Space Age’ – Tony Crabtree
  ‘Getting Boozed! The development and maintenance of alcohol addiction.?’ – James Clay 
• 19:30 - 21:30, Turl Street Kitchen, Oxford – Brain Rhythms
  ‘Here’s a thought: the brain’s got rhythm’ – Professor Roland Jones 
• 19:30 - 21:30, Ye Olde Ship Inn, Guildford – What makes us tick?
  ‘Intelligent bodies: how what we know is so much more than we think’ – Miss Sarah Campbell
  ' Ageing and the Immune System' - Professor Deborah Dunn-Walters
• 19:30 - 22:00, Fuggles, Tonbridge – Arts and the Mind
  ‘This is Your Brain on the Arts' – Freya Vass-Rhee
  ‘Mending the Mind with Music’ – Amelia Turrell

Tuesday - 15th May 

• 19:30 - 21:00, The Three Guineas, Reading – Mice, men, mad cows, cannibalism and...Dementia??
  ‘What do mad cows, Nobel prizes and cannibalism have in common?’ – Dr Patrick Lewis 
  'Of mice and men: the pre-clinical study of dementia' - Dr Francesco Tamagnini
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Tramstop Bar and Kitchen, Southampton – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the Drugs of Abuse?
  ‘Won’t Stop or Can’t Stop?’ – Carl Buckfield and Lucy Dorey
  ‘“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds": is there a different truth for illegal drugs.?’ – Prof Vincent O'Connor 
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Barley Mow, Portsmouth – Express Yourself 
  ‘The Evolutionary Origins of Language: How and Why?’ – Derry Taylor
  ‘Fight or Flight: why anxiety isn't always what it seems??’ – Louise Jupe 
• 19:30 - 21:30, Ye Olde Ship Inn, Guildford – Education and innovation for the win!
  ‘The journey of an idea' – Will Lanham-New
  '(Nearly) everything you know about education is wrong' - Professor Andy Adcroft
• 19:30 - 21:30, Turl Street Kitchen, Oxford – Life of Dad 
  ‘The Science of Fatherhood’ – Dr Anna Machin
• 19:30 - 22:00, Foundry White Horse Lane, Canterbury - Risky Businesses : The sience of Booze and Belief
  'Willpower is like a muscle' -  Chris Fullerton
  'Alcohol use: How Risky is Risky?' - Nadine Hendrie 

Wednesday - 16th May

• 19:30 - 21:30, The Tramstop Bar and Kitchen, Southampton – Beating the Blues
  ‘Our Emotional Connection with Places’ – Dr Andy Myers
  ‘What's So Mad About Mental Health?.?’ – Peter Larkum 
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Barley Mow, Portsmouth – Crime Stoppers
  ‘Stranger Danger: Mixed messages and protecting children from abduction’ – Dr Craig Collie 
  ‘Forensics on the brain: exploring the science behind decision-making’ – Dr Helen Earwaker 
• 19:30 - 21:30, Turl Street Kitchen, Oxford – Picture this! What's going on in the brain?
  ‘Fixing the brain before it’s broken’ – Professor Clare Mackay
  'Our brain, back to the future...' - Dr Etienne Roesch 
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Weyside, Guildford – It's all about psychology
  ‘The psychology of dieting’ – Professor Jane Ogden
  'Our brain, back to the future...' - Dr Chris Jones, Dr Kayleigh Wyles, Dr Birgitta Gatersleben and Professor David Uzzell 
• 19:30 - 21:30, Ye Olde Ship Inn, Guildford – Quantum biology, the internet and dementia
  ‘Memory in Quantum Biology – Nick Werren
  'The TIHM Project - Improving Dementia Care in Surrey
  ' - Dr Shirin Enshaeifar

South West

Monday - 14th May 

• 19:30 - 21:30, The Ship, Exeter - Delving into Dementia
  'Epileptic seizures in the memory clinic population: What are they like? Who is having them? When do they occur?' - Dr John Baker 
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Four Horsemen Pub, Bournemouth - Forensic Psychology : Inside a Criminal's Head
  'Constructing the face of a criminal' - Dr Emma Portch
  'The not so beautiful mind : How we can get you!' - Dr Terri Cole
  'Children's mind as the crime scene - asking children about their experiences - Dr Ching-Yu Hang 
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Bell Inn, Bath - The Brain and All We (don't) Know 
  'Treating Pain in the Brain' - Dr Jane Bultitude
  'Erasing Unwanted Memories' - Dr Chris Bailey 
• 19:30 - 22:00, The Greenbank, Bristol - Mirror, mirror on the wall
  'My body type? – Successful.' - Nadia Craddock and Jade Parnell
  'Appearance Matters; how can psychological research help people with altered or unusual appearance' - Diana Harcourt and Nichola Rumsey 

Tuesday - 15th May 

• 19:30 - 21:30, The Ship, Exeter - Social Identity and Illusions 
  'Who do we think you are? Online social identity detection' - Mirian Koschate-Reis
  'What can illusions tell us about how we perceive the world?' - Dr Gavin Buckingham
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Four Horsemen Pub, Bournemouth - All in your Head? The Reality of mental illness
  'Smashing the stigma: let's talk about mental health' - Dr Andrew Mayers
  'Just wired differently - exploring autism spectrum conditions' - Dr Rachel Mosely
  'Thinking the unthinkable in lifestyle change' - Dr Fiona Ling 
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Bell Inn, Bath - The Life of Carers and Child Experiences of Trauma 
  'The lives of young carers: body, mind and society' - Tamsyn Hawken 
  'The Impact of Trauma and Maltreatment on the Mental Health and Support Needs of Young People in Care' - Dr Rachael Hiller 
• 19:30 - 22:00, The Greenbank, Bristol - Gin and Beer it 
  'Gin and Beer it - 1' - Tony Pickering 
  'Gin and Beer it - 2' - Jon Brooks 

Wednesday - 16th May

• 19:30 - 21:30, The Ship, Exeter - Delving into the Brain 
  'Unravelling motor neurons disease one cell at a time' - Patricia Thomas
  'Resisting Temptations. Can we do it?' - Samantha van Beurden 
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Four Horsemen Pub, Bournemouth - Mind over Brain: Topics in Psychology and Neuroscience.
  'How the brain affects eye movements and hazard perception in driving' - Dr Peter Hills
  'How to read better not faster' - Dr Bernhard Angele
  'Abbreviations in reading: How Bavarian is a BMW?' - Dr Tim Slattery
  'BRANES: Building Awareness and Resilience through Neuropsychological Education in the Society' - Dr Shanti Shanker
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Bell Inn, Bath - Perfectionism vs Hangover 
  'Intoxication to Hangover: Alcohol’s Brain and Behaviour Journey' - Craig Gunn and Dr Sally Adams
  'How perfectionism became today’s hidden epidemic' - Dr Thomas Curran 
• 19:30 - 22:00, The Greenbank, Bristol - The Disordered Brain 
  'Holes in the mind: Did my memories fall through?' - Alfie Wearn  
  'Building better brains: understanding distorted sensation using synthetic touch' - Aleks Domanski 
• 19:30 - 22:00, The Golden Guinea, Bristol - Getting into the Rhythm
  'What do Tweets tell us about stress?' - Stafford Lightman and Nello Cristianini
  'Screen time, bright lights, and rhythms that are only skin deep' - Thomas Upton

Wales

Monday - 14th May

• Monday 14th May, 19:30 - 21:30, No Sign Bar, Swansea - The Ageing Brain 
  'The Human Brain : A Truly Incredible Structure' - Dr Amy Jenkins 
  'Stimulating the Ageing Brain' - Dr Claire J. Hanley
• Monday 14th May, 19:30 - 21:30, Tiny Rebel, Cardiff - Tuning the Brain to the Beat
  'A Drunken Walk Through the Beautiful Brain' - Professor Derek Jones 
  'White matter plasticity in the human brain' - Dr Claudia Metzler-Baddeley 
• Monday 14th May, 19:30 - 22:00, The Raven, Glasgow - Dissecting Dementia
  'Research efforts for a novel treatment for Alzheimer’s disease?' - Professor Andrew Tobin 
  'Sports concussion and dementia : what to believe' - Dr Josie Fullerton 

Tuesday - 15th May 

• Tuesday 15th May, 19:30 - 21:30, Tiny Rebel, Cardiff - When the Brain comes undone 
  'Repairing a broken brain - learning lessons from the past for a brighter future' - Dr Emma Lane
  'Huntington’s disease: genetics and research into potential therapies.' - Dr Emma Yhnell

North West

Monday - 14th May 

• 19:30 - 21:30, Leaf on Bold Street, Liverpool – A Meeting of Minds 
  ‘How Alcohol Works’ – Jeff Barclay 
  ‘Stress and Psyche- Not all Good, Not all Bad’ – Bertram Muller-Myhsok
  'Our Turbulent Minds; Why we're all Crazy but None of us is Ill' - Peter Kinderman
• 19:30 - 21:30, Didsbury Sports Ground, Manchester – Phobias, Pain and the Brain?
  ‘Facing Your Fears is Good for You - But Only If You Are In Control!’ – Dr Warren Mansell
  ‘The science behind the pain: When some pains never go away’ – Dr Hannah Twiddy 

Tuesday - 15th May 

• 19:30 - 21:30, Leaf on Bold Street, Liverpool – A Meeting of Minds 
  ‘The Good, The Bad, and The Vicious – How We Judge Dogs’ – Sara Owczarczak-Garstecka 
  ‘I Feel Your Pain: Empathy in a Social World’ – Nick Fallon
  'Night Owls and Psychopaths - The Dark Triad of Personality' - Minna Lyons
• 19:30 - 21:30, Didsbury Sports Ground, Manchester – Art and Technology to Understand Mental Health?
  ‘You can have any colour you want, as long as it's black: choosing treatment for psychosis’ – Dr Warren Mansell
  ‘Putting psychosis on the stage’ – Professor Paul French
  'Using technology to deliver interventions for people who experience psychosis' - Dr Natalie Berry 

Wednesday - 16th May 

• 19:30 - 21:30, Leaf on Bold Street, Liverpool – Trump, Driving, & HIV: How Science Affects our Society?
  ‘Driving is a Risky Business’ – Laura Bonnet
  ‘Trumpisms and Beyond: The New Language of Politics’ – Karl Simms 
  '‘Ten Years, One Billion Dollars, One Drug, Big Deal’ - How HIV Activists shaped Health Research' - Lucy Brading 
• 19:30 - 21:30, Didsbury Sports Ground, Manchester – Understanding the engima of Parkinson's
  ‘Dancing in the lab: How can dance benefit people with Parkinson’s?’ – Dr Jude Bek 
  ‘Using digital detectives to monitor Parkinson's’ – Dr Julio Vega 
   

North East

Monday - 14th May 

• 19:00 - 22:00, The Town Wall, Newcastle Upon Tyne - Being Human 
  'Catching Fire' - Faye Horsley 
  'Islam in the media - 60 seconds of bias' - Dr Trevor James 
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Old Laundrette, Durham – I Have a Dream 
  ‘Connecting Humans and Machines’ – Joshua Podmore
  ‘Teaching a Robot to Learn’ – William Prew

Tuesday - 15th May 

• 19:00 - 22:00, The Town Wall, Newcastle Upon Tyne - Vision: From insects to robots
  'The Praying Mantis - Secrets and Eyes' - Dr Vivek Nityananda 
  'Locust Collisions to Robot Vision' - Erin Cocks
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Old Laundrette, Durham – Knowing me knowing you 
  ‘Television and body ideals in the jungle’ – Dr Lynda Boothroyd
  ‘My body and me: senses, brains, and phantom limbs’ – Dr Dorothy Cowie

Wednesday - 16th May 

• 19:00 - 22:00, The Town Wall, Newcastle Upon Tyne - A Shocking Cure?
  'ECT and depression' - Dr Stuart Watson 
  'ECT- a user perspective' - Carolyne James 
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Old Laundrette, Durham – One of us
  ‘Can Children be Psychopaths?’ – Dr Luna Centifanti
  ‘The Impact of Memory on Behaviour’ – Dr David Sanderson

Scotland

Monday - 14th May 

• 19:00 - 22:00, Moriarty's Bar, Edinburgh, Ageing : From Cognition to Cells
  'Staying Sharp' - Dr Alan Gow 
  'How does my brain change with age' - Dr Chris Henstridge
• 19:30 - 22:00, The Raven, Glasgow - Dissecting Dementia
  'Research efforts for a novel treatment for Alzheimer’s disease?' - Professor Andrew Tobin 
  'Sports concussion and dementia : what to believe' - Dr Josie Fullerton 

Tuesday - 15th May 

• 19:30 - 21:30, The Raven, Glasgow - Unravelling the Brain
  'Getting directions; Dyslexic Brains have a Smart Route for you' - Léon Franzen 
  'Predicting and Mind Wandering – What our Brains are Made for' - Professor Lars Muckli
  'How People Perceive Difference' - Dr Helena Paterson 

Wednesday - 16th May 

• 19:00 - 22:00, Moriarty's Bar, Edinburgh, Building Brains
  'Building Brains in a Dish - using stem cells to understand how the brain develops' - Dr John Mason 
  'Building Networks in a Computer - using computational modelling to understand the brain' - Dr Matthias Hennig
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh - Dementia: our greatest medical challenge on a microscopic scale?
  'Heroes and villains of the brain with dementia' - Catarina Dias 
  'Why white matter matters' - Dr Jill Fowler 
• 19:30 - 22:00, The Raven, Glasgow - What Decides Our Decisions?
  'The Neural Trade Off between Cooperation and Competition' - Dr Andrea Pisauro
  'My Insula Don't Care for Money' - Dr Emanuele De Luca 

East Midlands

Monday - 14th May 

• 19:30 - 22:00, Canalhouse, Nottingham – Crime is Mental 
  ‘"It's not something I chose" - Understanding paedophiles construction of sexual interest in children’ – Nicholas Blagden
  ‘Predicting "unpredictable" Aggression’ – Claire Lawrence 
  'From victims to survivors - recovery and well-being among genocide and war-affected individuals' - Laura Blackie 

Tuesday - 15th May 

• 19:30 - 22:00, Canalhouse, Nottingham – Brain Through a Microscope
  ‘Everything you need to know about brain blood vessels and stroke' – Tracy Farr
  ‘Can lactate, a waste product, fuel the brain?’ – Angus Brown 
  'Let’s connect! How neuronal cables wire the brain' - Raquel Ribeiro

Wednesday - 16th May 

• 19:30 - 22:00, Canalhouse, Nottingham – Watch & Listen 
  ‘Brain imaging - revealing hidden maps in the central nervous system' – Denis Schluppeck 
  ‘Beautiful Sound - how we hear, how hearing is lost and what can be done to restore it’ – Katin Krumbholz
   

West Midlands

Monday - 14th May 

• 19:00 - 21:00, Cherry's Red, Birmingham – Brain and rewards: what motivates you?
  ‘Motivating behavioural change: carrot or the stick?’ – Dr Joe Galea
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Phoenix, Coventry – Mental health and me 
  ‘Falling through the cracks in mental health care’ – Rebecca Appleton 
  'Schizophrenia: Blurred margins between body & mind' - Benjamin Perry
  'Unravelling the mysteries of the human brain' - Rebecca Diez
   

Tuesday - 15th May 

• 19:00 - 21:00, Cherry's Red, Birmingham – Brain and memory: what do you remember?
  ‘Feeling our memories’ – Dr Federica Meconi
  'Why your false memories stick around' - Dr Rob Nash 
• 19:00 - 21:30, The Alchemist, Birmingham – Delve into dementia: from brains in a dish to understanding risk
  ‘Building a brain to study Alzheimer's disease’ – Dr Eric Hill 
  'The role of body fat in dementia risk' - Dr James Brown 
  'Exercise and diet - reducing risk of Alzheimer's disease?' - Dr Sarah Aldred 

Wednesday - 16th May 

• 19:00 - 21:00, Cherry's Red, Birmingham – Brain and consciousness: what are you aware of?
  ‘Distraction and deception on the fringe of awareness’ – Professor Howard Bowman 
  'Consiousness : a problem for everyone, not just philosophers' - Dr Damien Cruse 

Yorkshire and the Humber

Monday - 14th May 

• 19:00 - 21:30, Sheffield Tab, Sheffield – Going through Imperfections
  ‘Developing a flexible mind: why making mistakes can be a good thing’ – Dr Emma Blakey 
  'The power of being kind and loving your imperfections' - Sandy Belle Rosales Cadena?
• 19:30 - 21:30, North Brewing Company, Leeds – Doing Your Head In 
  ‘How insulin in the brain keeps us healthy’ – Dr Beatrice Maria Filippi
• 19:30 - 21:30, Pieminister, Leeds – Cyber Students
  ‘Reinforcement Learning: Robots Learning by Doing’ – Dr Matteo Leonetti
• 19:30 - 21:30, The Brain Jar, Hull – Giggles and Coughs
  ‘A Fit of the Giggles’ – Mr George Spink
  'From Chilli to Colds : the Causes of Cough' - Dr Laura Sadofsky
• 19:30 - 21:30, Eagle and Child, York – The brain: development, disease and diagnosis?
  ‘Artificial Intelligence for diagnosing dystonia’ – Stephen Smith 
  'Modelling Parkinson's disease in the zebrafish' - Gideon Hughes
  'Building the brain: how to make brain cells and wire them together' - Gareth Evans 

Tuesday - 15th May 

• 19:00 - 21:30, Sheffield Tab, Sheffield – Unconventional Neuroscience 
  ‘An affair in the brain: neurovascular yin yang’ – Karishma Chhabria
  'Dopamine: high, low, fast, slow, what do we know?!' - Dr Lars Hunger
• 19:30 - 21:30, North Brewing Company, Leeds – Change your Mind
  ‘Amyloid diseases: the quest for the cure’ – Dr Nicholas Guthertz
• 19:30 - 21:30, Eagle and Child, York – Learn. Sleep. Recall. Repeat
  ‘Sleep and Consolidating Donald Trump's Twitter Feed or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dumb.’ – Alexander Reid 
  'From zzzs to AAAs: the importance of sleep in childhood learning' - Emma James 
  'The one with the mental time traveler: reconstructing the past and imaging the future' - Aidan Horner 

Wednesday - 16th May 

• 19:00 - 21:30, Sheffield Tab, Sheffield – The Power of Words 
  ‘Read my eyes: how language guides visual perception’ – Dr Srdan Medimorec
  'The science of gratitude' - Dr Fuschia Sirois
• 19:30 - 21:30, North Brewing Company, Leeds – Mind's Eye 
  ‘Brain circuits for seeing and smelling’ – Dr Jamie Johnston 
• 19:30 - 21:30, Eagle and Child, York – Amazing Animals 
  ‘Canine communication’ – Alex Benjamin
  'Exploring animal personalities' - Eleanor Drinkwater 
   

East of England

Monday - 14th May 

• 19:00 - 21:30, The Castle Bar, Cambridge – Organised Chaos: How the Brain Constructs Reality
  ‘The story of a noisy brain’ – Timothy Rittman
  ‘The space of actions’ – Marco Tripodi
  ‘Castles in the Air : Making and Inhabiting a Different Reality’ – Paul Fletcher
• 19:30 - 21:30, V-Bar, Colchester – Bursting popular neuro myths
  ‘Neuro-myth or neuro-hit? The science of learning in the classroom’ – Victoria Knowland 
  ‘Life stress and ageing’ – Nick Cooper 
  ‘Writing the code of life: a journey from computer programming to genome engineering’ – Giovanni Stracquadanio
• 19:30 - 21:30, Cafe Britannia, Norwich – Art, Illusion, and Your Brain
  ‘Visual Illusions’ – Dr Martin Doherty
  ‘What Art Tells us about Vision and the Brain’ – Dr George Malcom

Tuesday - 15th May 

• 19:00 - 21:30, The Castle Bar, Cambridge – Keeping the Brain Happy: Technology to Monitor and Maintain Brain Health?
  ‘Application of Tech for the Care of Patients with Dementia’ – Dennis Chan 
  ‘Chemistry of the Brain - Why we feel happy, why we feel sad (and what we can do about it)’ – Andreas Bender
  ‘Measuring the mind: how smartphones and Apple Watches can help maintain our mental health' – Jenny Bernett
• 19:30 - 21:30, V-Bar, Colchester – Humans vs. Robots 
  ‘Can AI give better game balance suggestions than a tipsy designer?’ – Mihail Morosan
  ‘Bioinformatics: using computers to understand life.’ – Toni Marco

Wednesday - 16th May

• 19:00 - 21:30, The Castle Bar, Cambridge – Fixing the Brain: Can You Fix a Broken Brain?
  ‘Repairing the human brain – True or False?' – Roger Barker
  ‘Halting nerve cell death and improving quality of life in progressive supranuclear palsy’ – Luca Passamonti
  ‘The Impact of Surgical Brain Injury' – Rohit Sinha
• 19:30 - 21:30, V-Bar, Colchester – Worry less, Live more! 
  ‘Brain Decoding: What we know about the brain?’ – Alba Garcia
  ‘To delete or not delete? That is the question.’ – John Chamberlain 
• 19:30 - 21:30, Cafe Britannia, Norwich – Language and Possession 
  ‘Baby Talk : How do Infants Develop Language’ – Dr Nadja Althaus
  ‘Owning it : How we process and experience personal property’ – Dr Emma Watkinson-Aspinall

Northern Ireland

Tuesday - 15th May 

• 19:30 - 21:30, The Black Box, Belfast – Seeing into the future
  ‘The insight for the night’ – Kevin Harkin
  ‘Imaging how we see’ – Dr Imre Lengyel
  'Dissecting the retina with genetic technology' - Dr David Simpson
  'Cell Therapy'- Dr Sarah Chambers