What causes mental illness? Is genius linked to madness? What is autism and how should we treat it? And is dementia inevitable in old age? What happens to us in a stroke or brain injury and how can we recover? Scientist Dr Richard Roche explores the human brain and our quest to know ourselves.Athena Media Productions

What is intelligence, how do we learn, think and create? How do we create and lose memories and why have we learned more about the human brain in the last few decades than the previous thousands? Neuroscientist Dr Richard Roche unravels the most complex thing in the universe.Athena Media Productions

Short 6, Professor of Experimental Brain Research Dr. Shane O'Mara talks about how remarkable the brain is, and how its functions and complexities have made humans the most dispersed species on the planetAthena Media Productions

Short 5, Dr. Richard Roche, presenter of the Brain Box, describes how he sees the brain and the connections that make it as complex and powerful as it is.Athena Media Productions

Short 4, John Foxe, professor of neuroscience and pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, redefines the concept of intelligence with Brain Box presenter Dr. Richard Roche.Athena Media Productions

Short 3, Ian Robertson, Professor of Psychology in Trinity College Dublin talks to The Brain Box presenter Richard Roche about brain plasticity - our brains ability to change and grow as we feed it new information, as well as the distinctive relationship between the mind and the brain, thinking young can keep you young.…

Short 2, David Delany, Cognitive Neuroscientist from Waterford Institute of Technology thinks that a computer that could mimic the human brain may not be that far away - but in the meantime, we can train our brains to help us think like geniuses.Athena Media Productions

Short 1, Aine Behan, CEO of Cortechs, talks to The Brain Box presenter Richard Roche about neurofeedback, the technique they use in their games and apps helping people with attention disorders to retrain the brains brain waves to improve cognitive function.Athena Media Productions

We have learned more about the brain in the past 50 years than in the previous two thousand and in this series Dr. Richard Roche takes us on a journey into our mind to uncover the secrets of the human brain which one brain scientist calls the most complex entity in the known universeAthena Media Productions