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