MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials

By Dr Aalap Asurlekar

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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. 


Access to syllabus linked episodes: MRCPsych on the Go: Revision Essentials

Get in touch here: hello@mrcpsychonthego.com


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Episode Date
49. How Is IQ Measured? Binet-Simon, Mental Age, Wechsler Deviation IQ and the WAIS
Nov 09, 2026
48. What Is Intelligence? Spearman’s g Factor, Fluid vs Crystallised Intelligence and Multiple Intelligences
Nov 02, 2026
47. Acting Out Your Dreams: REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder and the Early Warning Sign of Parkinson's
Oct 19, 2026
46. Why Do People Sleepwalk? Night Terrors, Sleep Eating and Disorders of Arousal
Oct 12, 2026
45. The Sleeping Beauty Syndrome: Kleine-Levin Syndrome and Sleeping for Weeks
Oct 05, 2026
44. Falling Asleep Without Warning: Narcolepsy, Cataplexy and Orexin
Sep 28, 2026
43. Insomnia Disorder: Why You're Tired but Can't Switch Off
Sep 21, 2026
42. Is Hypnosis Real? Suggestibility, Meditation and the Science of Trance
Sep 14, 2026
41. The Lindsay Clancy Case: Postpartum Psychosis and the Insanity Defence Explained
Sep 09, 2026
40. What Is Postpartum Psychosis? Symptoms, Causes and Treatment
Sep 07, 2026
39. What Actually Happens When You Sleep: Sleep Stages, Dreaming and Circadian Rhythms
Aug 31, 2026
38. Why Does Attention Fade Over Time? The Reticular Activating System, Vigilance Decrement and ADHD
Aug 24, 2026
37. Freud's Id, Ego and Superego Explained: Oedipus Complex and Defence Mechanisms
Aug 17, 2026
36. Korsakoff's Syndrome Explained: Thiamine Deficiency, Confabulation and Wernicke's Encephalopathy
Aug 10, 2026
35. How Much of Your Mind Is Unconscious? Levels of Consciousness, Subliminal Priming and Implicit Memory
Aug 03, 2026
34. What Makes Us Resilient? The Kauai Study, Protective Factors and Post-Traumatic Growth
Jul 27, 2026
33. Locus of Control and Learned Helplessness: The Psychology of Rotter and Seligman
Jul 20, 2026
32. Coping With Stress: How Lazarus, Folkman and the Transactional Model Work
Jul 13, 2026
31. Type A Personality Explained: Stress, Vulnerability and Coronary Heart Disease
Jul 06, 2026
30. Complex PTSD Explained: ICD-11 Diagnosis, Self-Organisation and Treatment
Jun 29, 2026
29. Understanding PTSD: Diagnosis, Neurobiology and Treatment
Jun 22, 2026
28. What Is Motivational Conflict? Kurt Lewin, Approach-Avoidance and the Psychology of Trauma
Jun 15, 2026
27. Can Stress Make You Sick? The Social Readjustment Rating Scale and Daily Hassles
Jun 08, 2026
26. What Is Stress? Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome and the Biology of Cortisol
Jun 01, 2026
25. Do We All Feel the Same Things? Ekman, Plutchik and Emotional Arousal
May 25, 2026
24. Can the Same Feeling Mean Different Things: The Two-Factor Theory and Cognitive Appraisal of Emotion
May 18, 2026
23. Does The Brain Lead the Body: The Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion
May 11, 2026
22. Why Does Your Heart Race Before You Feel Afraid: James-Lange Theory of Emotion
May 04, 2026
21. Why We Need More Than Food: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Self-Actualisation
Apr 27, 2026
20. Why We Resist Change: Cognitive Dissonance, Achievement and What Drives Success
Apr 20, 2026
19. The Psychology of Curiosity: Intrinsic Motivation and the Yerkes-Dodson Law
Apr 16, 2026
18. What Drives Us: Motivation, Drives, Homeostasis and the Hypothalamus
Apr 15, 2026
17. Is Personality in Your Biology? Eysenck, Psychoticism and the PEN Model
Apr 10, 2026
16. Carl Jung Explained: Archetypes, the Unconscious and Individuation
Apr 09, 2026
15. Personality Explained: The Big Five, Traits and Types
Apr 08, 2026
14. Are We All the Same? How Psychologists Study Individual Differences
Mar 30, 2026
13. How We Think and Decide: Heuristics, Algorithms and Cognitive Bias
Mar 25, 2026
12. Does Language Change the Way You Think? Concepts, Prototype Theory and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Mar 24, 2026
11. Why We Forget: Memory Distortion, Interference and Schemas
Mar 23, 2026
10. High-Yield Memory Systems: Encoding, Storage and Retrieval Explained
Mar 17, 2026
9. Selective Attention Explained: How the Brain Filters What You Hear and See
Mar 16, 2026
8. Why Our Eyes Deceive Us: Visual Illusions, Pareidolia and the Brain
Mar 13, 2026
7. Hearing Voices: Auditory Perception, Hallucinations and the Brain
Mar 12, 2026
6.How We Make Sense of the World: Gestalt Psychology and Perceptual Organisation
Mar 06, 2026
5. Social Learning Theory Explained: Bandura, Modelling and the Bobo Doll Experiment
Mar 05, 2026
4. How Habits Form: Habituation, Shaping and Chaining Explained
Mar 04, 2026
3. Why We Avoid: The Psychology of Escape, Avoidance and Fear
Mar 03, 2026
2. High-Yield Learning Theory: Reinforcement, Generalisation and Extinction
Feb 24, 2026
1. Why We Learn: Classical and Operant Conditioning Explained
Feb 16, 2026