An Evening with Orlando Swayne - Gower Street

Join us for an evening discussion on how the beautiful science of brain plasticity meets remarkable human stories of survival and recovery. We’ll discover the woman who thought her arm was a baby, the man who saw mannequins peering at him through the dark, and the patient who found his way back to human interaction through music.

As a medical student, Orlando Swayne was taught that a broken brain doesn’t mend. But as a junior doctor, he began to meet patients for whom this was clearly not the case. Intrigued by what he saw, he delved deep into the emerging neuroscience of brain reorganisation, and discovered that over time brain tissue creates new networks and regenerates.

Orlando Swayne, MD, PhD, is a lead neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery in London’s Queen Square. He is also a member of the Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation at the UCL Institute of Neurology.