MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials

About MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials

Welcome to MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials, the award-winning revision podcast for psychiatry trainees. Winner of the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) Award for Excellence 2026. I'm Dr Aalap Asurlekar, a Psychiatry Trainee in the UK and the creator of this podcast. Having experienced firsthand the challenge of preparing for the MRCPsych exams alongside full-time clinical work, I created this podcast to make high-quality, structured revision more accessible. Each episode focuses on key syllabus topics, explained in clear and structured language to help you understand and retain the most important concepts. Whether you are a psychiatry trainee preparing for Paper A, B, or CASC, a medical student looking to strengthen your psychiatry knowledge, or simply curious about how the mind works and how mental health conditions are understood and treated, this podcast is designed to fit around your schedule. Episodes include exam-style questions and clinical scenarios to support active recall, so you can learn during commutes, walks, or between shifts. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mrcpsychonthego Email: mrcpsychonthego@outlook.com Music: Good Energy by Aylex https://soundcloud.com/alexproductionsmusic License: https://freetouse.com/license *MRCPsych is a registered trademark of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. This podcast is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. *

Publisher

Dr Aalap Asurlekar

Category

education · education · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Feb 2026

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

47 episodes in the feed.

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   19 Oct 2026

   47. Acting Out Your Dreams: REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder and the Early Warning Sign of Parkinson's

   Why would someone punch, kick or leap out of bed in the middle of a dream, and why might it be a warning sign of Parkinson's disease years later? In this episode, we close our five-part series on sleep disorders with REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD), the most important early warning sign in sleep medicine. We tell the story of Carlos Schenck and Mark Mahowald, who first described the condition. We explore the brainstem circuit in the pons that normally paralyses us during REM sleep, and why...

2. 

   12 Oct 2026

   46. Why Do People Sleepwalk? Night Terrors, Sleep Eating and Disorders of Arousal

   Why can someone walk, talk, or even drive while their brain is still partly asleep? In this episode, we explore the disorders of arousal from non-REM sleep: confusional arousals, sleepwalking, sleep terrors (also known as night terrors), and sleep-related eating disorder. We look at the neuroscience of "local sleep," where the motor cortex wakes while the frontal cortex and hippocampus stay in slow-wave sleep, explaining the amnesia and confusion. We cover genetics and family risk, triggers i...

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   5 Oct 2026

   45. The Sleeping Beauty Syndrome: Kleine-Levin Syndrome and Sleeping for Weeks

   What if you slept twenty hours a day for weeks at a time, then woke up with barely any memory of it? In this episode, we explore Kleine-Levin syndrome, the rare recurrent hypersomnia nicknamed Sleeping Beauty syndrome, affecting roughly one to five people per million. We cover what an active episode looks like, and the classic three Hs of hypersomnia, hyperphagia and hypersexuality. We look at what brain imaging reveals about the circuits involved, with reduced blood flow in the thalamus and ...

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