Abstract

Take an interactive journey through the workings of the nervous system with Dr Hannah Critchlow, a Naked Scientist at Cambridge University. If you’re brave enough, she’ll use you as an experimental guinea pig – read your brainwaves, activate your muscles electrically and even pick up when you are lying.

Dr Hannah Critchlow, is neuroscientist with a background in neuropsychiatry. In 2011 she joined the multi award-winning Naked Scientists team (http://www.thenakedscientists.com), who are based at the University of Cambridge where they produce science and medicine radio programmes and podcasts that are broadcast internationally, including UK-wide on the BBC . Thanks to a Wellcome Trust Society award she is developing “Naked Neuroscience”, a traveling science stage show and podcast that will target schools and the general public, taking audiences on a journey through the brain.

Hannah also works with the local mental health and social inclusion charity Squeaky Gate (http://www.squeakygate.org.uk/) and can be found flocking like a bird (a form of dance) at Squeaky Gate workshops.