Medical Detectives (audio)

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Professor Jean Manson is Head of the Neuropathogenesis Division of The Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh. This lecture is part of the Medical Detectives, a series of public lectures that...

David Cunningham Owens is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh and honorary consultant psychiatrist, the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. This talk revealed how the development of ...

David Cunningham Owens is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh and honorary consultant psychiatrist, the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. This lecture is part of the Medical Detect...

A public lecture presented by Professor Brendan Corcoran on Thursday 28 October 2010. This is the second lecture in the 2010 Medical Detectives lecture series. Brendan Corcoran is Professor of Veterin...

A public lecture presented by Professor Jane Norman on Thursday 21 October 2010. This is the first lecture in the 2010 Medical Detectives lecture series. Jane Norman is Professor of Maternal and Fetal...

A public lecture presented by Professor James Ironside on Thursday 4 November 2010. This is the third lecture in the 2010 Medical Detectives lecture series. James Ironside is Professor of Clinical Neu...

The final in a series of public lectures which show that keen detective work is still essential for 21st Century doctors. Recorded on 19 November 2009 in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre at the University ...

The third in a series of public lectures which show that keen detective work is still essential for 21st Century doctors. Recorded on 12 November 2009 in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre at the University ...

The second in a series of public lectures which show that keen detective work is still essential for 21st Century doctors. Recorded on 5 November 2009 in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre at the University ...

The first in a series of public lectures which show that keen detective work is still essential for 21st Century doctors. Recorded on 29 October 2009 in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre at the University o...