Faraneh Vargha-Khadem

Research, Clinical Practice, Consultancy

MEDIA

Television

– A brief history of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL Institute of Child Health, 29 March 2012

Speech and language

– “Long term psychological trauma of war”, Al Jazeera English International, January 18, 2015

– “The mystery of Gene, what is the human being?”, Tokyo Broadcasting System, February 11, 2013

– “The Human Spark”, PBS (USA), January 2010

– “Why Do We Talk?” BBC Horizon, December 2009

– “On the road with Homo sapiens”, SDT1, September 2008

– “Human Ape”, National Geographic Channel US, 17 March, 2008

– “Perspective: Unlocking Language” World Wide Pictures, April 1998

– “Speech disorder gene” Sky News, February 1998

– “Language Gene” British Satellite News, February 1998

– “Living with half a brain” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation February 1998

– “Scientists find language disorder and autism gene” BBC 1, 27 January 1998

Memory

– “How Does Your Memory Work?”, Horizon, BBC 2, 25th March 2008

– “Preverbal memories” BBC News, March 10, 2007

– “Intensive Scare”, Horizon Series on Premature Birth, BBC1, August 21, 2003

– “Brain Story” BBC Two, August 2000

– “Mysteries of the Mind” (working title) BBC TV, Spring 2000

– “Helping brain damaged children to remember” BBC World Service Discovery programme

– First on Five item on Memory, Channel Five News, December 1997

– “The new syndrome of childhood amnesia” Sky News 19 July 1997

– “Can you train your brain?”, BBC Bang Goes The Theory, April, 2010

Radio

Speech and language

– “VOX Project” BBC Radio 4, January 2010

– “The Ideas That Make Us”, BBC Radio 4, 13 September 2013

Memory

– Faraneh Vargha-Khadem on memory BBC Radio 4, July 2016

– “Working Memory” from “Am I Normal?” Series 5, BBC Radio 4, October 21, 2008

– “Me and my memory”, The ‘Memory Experience’ season, BBC Radio 4, August 2, 2006

– BBC Radio Four, 30 October 2001

– Swiss National Radio, October 2001

– BBC World Service, July 1997

– Science Now – Radio 2, 14 May 1997

– John Dunn – Radio 2, 7 May 1997

– National Public Radio, USA 2 February 1997

Journals, magazines and newspaper articles

Speech and language

– “Talking genes”, The Secret of the Sequence, PBS August 2003

– “First Speech Gene” The Lancet, October 2001

– “A Language Gene is Identified” Washington Post 3 October 2001

– “Gene change speaks to language malady” Science News 3 October 2001

– “Scientists unlock mysteries of speech” BBC 3 October 2001

– “Talk of genetics and visa versa” Pinker, S. Nature 4 October 2001

– “Team pinpoints first gene key to language” The Guardian 4 October 2001

– “Speech gene discovery proves Darwin was right” The Times 4 October 2001

– “Scientists find gene linked to speech” The Independent October 2001

– “Gene Link to Speech” Daily Express 4 October 2001

– “Scientists Report Finding a Gene for Speech” The New York Times 4 October 2001

– “UK scientists identify first language gene” Reuters 4 October 2001

– “First Gene Linked to Speech Identified” Science 5 October 2001

– “First Gene of Language and Speech Discovered” The Telegraph 5 October 2001

– “The Power of Language May All Be In The Genes” The Observer, 7 October 2001

– “In search of language genes” Nature Neuroscience, November 2001

– “Scientists Identify a Language Gene” – National Geographic, 4 October 2001

– “Mute boy speaks after brain is halved” The Sunday Times 4 May 1997

– “Late bloomer – A boy with one hemisphere upsets old ideas on speech acquisition” Scientific American February 1997

– “Language Development: The Right Brain Speaks” Journal of NIH Research January 1997

– “When half a brain is better than one” New Scientist April 1996

Memory

– “Brain Damage in Children Can Take Years to Effect Behaviour” The Guardian 7 November 2000

– “Revealed: Why some of us are absent-minded” The Independent 20 February 2000

– “Unlocking the secrets of brain damage” Financial Times 6 November 1999

– “Babies can recognise words” The Independent 27 September 1997

– “Forgetfulness opens window on the mind” Daily Telegraph 18 July 1997

Other

– “Science: Can We Stop Anti-Social Behaviour?”, The Daily Telegraph, December 2007

– “Family Health: Brain – bad behaviour” The Times 12 December 2000

– “Seeds of a sociopath – Violence in the brain” US News & World Report 20 November 2000

– Neuroplasticity and Education, The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 27-28 October 2010

– Advances in developmental amnesia, UCL News, 28 September 2005

– Sickle cell disease, Action medical research for children, September 2003