Across the UK, across continental North America, and around the world on the internet, by webcasts and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes and this is the return of the unexplained.

Very nice or tumble sunshine as I record this, round about 20 degrees maybe just north of there. We've had some very strange weather in mid-October.

We've had cold spells, heavy, heavy rain and wind in some areas and we've had beautiful almost summer days, golden days.

So I think the weather's deciding what to do but we know we're heading towards winter and you know what I think about that. So enough said about that.

That's my weather report which I have kept short for those who don't like them. Many people seem to which is good.

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Okay, now something I want to address so this time round is something that I've talked about before. Some of you have been asking to hear again some of the interviews from the radio show that I do.

And as I explained, when I did put a very, very few pieces of material from the radio show on here, then some people said, oh, I don't want to hear that. We've heard that before.

And so you, again, it's a case of you can't win. So I haven't been including material from the radio show and I have said that I will include selected items here. But the fact where the radio show is like a lot of radio shows, the material that is broadcast is hereable for a couple of weeks. And then it's gone. You won't ever hear it again. And it's lost.

And that's a shame in the case of some of the interviews. So I realized that, you know, especially with people emailing me about people like Mary Ann Winkowski and others, you know, those interviews have been broadcast. They were around for a few weeks and they are gone unless I preserve them here.

So that's that's the way that it works. So to run this time that I think you might want to hear one is the great neuroscientist from Edinburgh UK Sergio Dela Salla talking about the mysteries of the human mind of the human brain and how those two terms are often used interchangeably. So we're going to be doing that here.

And also a little bit from my recent conversation on the radio recorded at the radio station with Nick Pope about his new documentary UFOs at the Pentagon, which is fascinating something. Just explain what that is all about and what new we can hear in this documentary. And certainly the new way that he's approached the documentary and the subject. So former Ministry of Defense UFO researcher now living in America, Nick Pope about his documentary will be second.

And first Sergio Dela Salla, neuroscientist here to talk about the mysteries of the human brain, that interview recorded here and intended originally for the podcast, but broadcast on the radio. It's all very complicated. If you'd like to get in touch, please do.

But right now the first item on this edition of the unexplained Sergio Dela Salla.

And Sergio, you are according to your biography, professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh, you've been at other places before that. But this is the place where you spent the thick end of the last decade. So you know that sounds very important. Can you tell me what that work entails, what you do.

Yeah, I'm an academic and my job, I'll search wise, is to study the relationship between the brain and behavior. So how we behave according to lesions in the brain. We study patients with different kinds of diseases or lesion in the brain and figure out what is missing and how the behavior changes according to the different lesions.

And from that, we try to figure out how the normal healthy brain works. Now that's difficult, isn't it? Because it is very hard and has been traditionally for scientists and medical people to be able to connect the associations between that lump of meat that sits in your head. I forget what it weighs on average, but you know that chunk of gray matter in your head.

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