<![CDATA[COVID On The Brain - Home]]>Mon, 26 Sep 2022 09:44:35 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Episode 4: An in depth perspective of a psycholinguist on being diagnosed with COVID-19]]>Thu, 20 Jan 2022 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.covidonthebrain.ca/home/episode-4-an-in-depth-perspective-of-a-psycholinguist-on-being-diagnosed-with-covid-19In the fourth episode of COVID On The Brain, we interviewed Michele (they/them), a resident New-Yorker one of the first people to contract COVID earlier in March 2020 when the pandemic first hit the US. 
Michele was a psycholinguist by profession, and describes the unprecedented personal effects COVID had on both their personal and professional life. To learn more about their incredible journey through fighting the virus and its wider implications, grab a snack and join us in this episode! 

Guest: Michele, Psycholinguist, Boston, USA
Host: Negeen Halabian
Interviewers: Kinza Naeem
Research Team: Ahad Daudi, Negeen Halabian, Leanne Monteiro,
                                Kinza Naeem
Editors: Leanne Monteiro
Producers: Ahad Daudi and Leanne Monteiro 

]]><![CDATA[Episode 3: The Intersection of COVID-19, Addiction and the Brain]]>Mon, 22 Nov 2021 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.covidonthebrain.ca/home/episode-3-the-intersection-of-covid-19-addiction-and-the-brainThe third episode of COVID On The Brain discusses the topic of social inequities and addictions with two experts on substance abuse and addiction research.
In this episode Dr. Farooq Naeem, a psychiatrist and Chief of General and Health System Psychiatry at the Center of Addiction and Mental Health and Dr. James MacKillop, a director at the Peter Boris Center for Addictions Research provide additional insight to the social determinants of health and how they have exacerbated health risks during the pandemic by looking at health systems and understanding brain health from a social lens. To learn more about this fascinating topic, tune into our November episode as soon as possible! 

Guests:
  • Dr. Farooq Naeem, MD, Chief of General and Health System Psychiatry at the Center of Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto
  • Dr. James MacKillop, PhD,  Director at the Peter Boris Center for Addictions Research, Hamilton
Host: Shane Cleary
Interviewers: Behrad Dehnadi, Peter Najdzionek, Joshua  Rychlik 
Editor: Behrad Dehnadi
Producer: Leanne Monteiro

]]><![CDATA[Episode 2: The Neuropsychiatric Effects of COVID-19]]>Wed, 20 Oct 2021 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.covidonthebrain.ca/home/episode-2-the-neuropsychiatric-effects-of-covid-19Tune for our second episode where we discuss the effects of COVID-19 on the brain and debunk the myths surrounding the neuropsychiatric symptoms seen in COVID-19 patients. 
Join us in our interview with Dr. John Connolly, PhD and Dr. Jordon Charlebois, MD, where they will shed light on the variability of symptoms presenting themselves in COVID-19 patients, ranging from those who fall severely ill to the ones who recover within a week at home. To listen to this exciting and informative conversation, grab a coffee and tune into this month's episode!

Guests: 
  • Dr. John Connolly, Phd, Co-director of the Language, Memory and Brain Lab at ARiEAL research center, McMaster University and Co-Founder of VoxNeuro, Hamilton.
  • Dr. Jordon Charlebois, MD, Psychiatry, St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton. 
Host: Dr. Jordon Charlebois
Interviewers:  Andrea D’Alessandro
Research Team: Emma Marsden, Donya Merza, Netri Pajankar, 
                                Maryam Rahat, Coral Rakovski,  Nicolette Rigg
Editors: Olivia Turner
Producer: Leanne Monteiro
]]><![CDATA[Episode 1 : NEUROBIOLOGY  OF  COVID-19]]>Sat, 18 Sep 2021 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.covidonthebrain.ca/home/episode-1​In the very first episode we interviewed Dr. Mukerji, a neurobiologist from Harvard Medical School who has been studying the effects of COVID-19 on the brain.
Guest: Dr. Shibani S. Mukerji, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School,
              Associate Director, Neuro-Infectious Disease Unit
Host: Andrei Alexe
Interviewers: Katy Sandoval and Miranda Green 
Editors: Leanne Monteiro, Shawniya Alageswaran and Vidhi Patel
Producer: Leanne Monteiro
]]><![CDATA[Welcome to COVID On The Brain Podcast]]>Tue, 17 Aug 2021 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.covidonthebrain.ca/home/welcome-to-covid-on-the-brain-podcast
​COVID-19 has affected every institution and science is not exempt. Dozens of articles are published every day regarding COVID-19  but despite all of this data the public was still unaware of the neurological and long-term effects of the virus.

So, as graduate students from disciplines including psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience, we joined forces to analyse all the available research on the effects of COVID-19 on the brain and present it in an easy to understand way. By doing so, we aimed to cut through a lot of the speculation surrounding COVID-19’s neurological and psychiatric effects.

Our aim for this podcast is to bridge the gap in science communication between SARS-CoV-2 research and the general public with each episode tackling a different aspect of COVID-19's effects on the brain.

Our first season will have 4 episodes which will be released every month, so watch out for Episode 1, coming this September!
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