Dr Jules Montague

BBC Radio 4 presenter - Dementia: Unexpected Stories of the Mind, a five-part documentary airing April 10th – 14th.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001kww0

Sunday Times Radio Pick of the Week

Times Newspaper Radio Choice

Telegraph Radio Choice

LOST AND FOUND: Why Losing Our Memories Doesn't Mean Losing Ourselves (Sceptre 2018), a bestseller, explores what remains of the person when the pieces of their mind go missing - from dementia and brain injury to sleep disorders and multiple personality disorder.

Lost and Found has featured on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3, Sky News and in the Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, Telegraph, and the Irish Times. Published internationally.

Praise for Lost and Found:

‘Montague is turning traditional thinking on its head in her beautifully written book about memory and identity’ The Times

‘Montague takes the reader on an exquisite journey into the human brain and beyond that. She does this with a humanity rich in tenderness and a beguiling reverence for the unknown. Occasionally we come across a physicist or economist who, despite their subject matter, can stop you in your tracks. They reel you in without you realising. Montague is a neurologist who does exactly that. She has a rare gift: she makes her craft look simple.’ Irish Times

‘A profoundly moving, revelatory book’ Daily Mail

THE IMAGINARY PATIENT: May 12th 2022. As featured on BBC Radio 4, Times Radio, in the Telegraph and Times, and at the Royal Institution. Telegraph Bestseller.Telegraph Books of the Year, Times Literary Supplement Shop Best New Books

TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xKQFbohe4g How diagnosis can get us wrong

Praise for The Imaginary Patient:

'The Imaginary Patient is a great stride forward in the way medical stories are told. Nobody who reads it will experience a doctor's appointment the same way again. Montague's writing is empathetic, surprising and forensic all at once.'

Caroline Crampton, author of The Way to the Sea.

A shocking history of the many ways in which medical diagnoses have "shown themselves to be a form of obfuscation"... Heartbreaking... [it] will make you see doctors differently.

Telegraph ****

‘[It] made me think…about what could be and has been influencing diagnosis’ Emma Barnett, BBC Women’s Hour

A compelling basis for change... A richly researched book that provides ample food for thought and ammunition for change in the way diagnosis is done

Medical Journalists' Association

THE IMAGINARY PATIENT: How Diagnosis Gets Us Wrong (Granta 2022) explores how the practice of diagnosis is tainted by the forces of imperialism, politics, discrimination and Big Pharma. She speaks to parents fighting for recognition of their children’s symptoms; men and women whose bodies have been stigmatised by society; and to the families of young black men who are being diagnosed posthumously with a condition that could exonerate their killers. Through these stories of heart-break and resilience, Montague shines a light on the troubled state of diagnosis, and asks how we might begin to heal.

PRESS:

As featured on BBC Radio 4 (Start the Week, Woman's Hour) and Times Radio, in the Telegraph and Times, and at the Royal Institution

A Telegraph bestseller and Times Literary Supplement Shop Best New Books.

BBC Radio 4:Start the Week, May 27th 2022 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018nnr

BBC Radio 4: Woman's Hour, May 11th 2022 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001744w

Times Radio: May 13th 2022 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio

Times Interview: May 17th 2022 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-your-next-diagnosis-might-do-you-more-harm-than-good-h7m9pq69v

Bath Literary Festival: May 19th 2022 https://www.brlsi.org/whatson/delusions-from-mediaeval-times-to-present-day/

Royal Institution: June 16th 2022 https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/how-diagnosis-gets-us-wrong

Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/chlorosis-jewish-plait-harrowing-history-fake-medical-conditions/

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Doctor Jules Montague is a neurologist and author.

Originally from Ireland, she moved to London 13 years ago. She writes about health and science for the BBC, Lancet, Guardian and Observer.

https://www.clippings.me/julesmontague

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LOST AND FOUND PRESS: as featured on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3, Sky News, and in the Guardian, Telegraph, Sunday Times, The Scotsman, and Irish Times.

'Montague takes the reader on an exquisite journey into the human brain and beyond that. She does this with a humanity rich in tenderness and a beguiling reverence for the unknown. Occasionally we come across a physicist or economist who, despite their subject matter, can stop you in your tracks. They reel you in without you realising. Montague is a neurologist who does exactly that. She has a rare gift: she makes her craft look simple.'

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/lost-and-found-want-to-understand-the-human-brain-read-this-1.3412241

'A profoundly moving, revelatory book... Like the late Oliver Sacks, Jules Montague writes about bizarre cases. ...And yet, she is also writing about what it is to be human and the surprising fragility of our sense of self.' — Daily Mail

BBC Radio 4 Start The Week, February 26th 2018

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09smgqf

Description: Consultant neurologist Jules Montague works with people suffering dementia and brain injuries. She tells Tom Sutcliffe what happens when the brain misbehaves. Memories may fade and names disappear - but does that mean a person no longer has the same identity?

Guardian podcast, February 20th 2018

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2018/feb/20/do-our-memories-make-us-who-we-are-books-podcast

Description: Neurologist Dr Jules Montague explains the science of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, and talks about her new book Lost and Found, a philosophical look at the human brain and the impact conditions and chemistry can have on our sense of self. Also features Wendy Mitchell's memoir Somebody I Used to Know.

Sunday Times interview, March 4th 2018

Link: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/finding-peace-of-mind-w3dgtgk6n

Description: Dementia can be treasured and amnesia has its benefits, according to consultant neurologist Jules Montague, who is turning traditional thinking on its head in her new book. By Eithne Shortall

Telegraph extract, March 5th 2018

Link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/mind/can-still-dementia-erases-memories/

Description: Can you still be you after dementia erases your memories?

Sky News interview, March 7th 2018

Description: Sky News Sunrise with Sarah-Jane Mee

Irish Times feature, March 7th 2018

Link: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/when-illness-attacks-identity-how-do-we-distinguish-the-pathology-from-the-person-1.3417167

Description: An Irish neurologist uses cases studies to explore what happens when identity is disrupted, through dementia, hysteria, multiple personality disorder, brain injury or LSD.

Ryan Tubridy interview, RTÉ, March 15th 2018

Link: https://www.rte.ie/radio1/ryan-tubridy/programmes/2018/0315/947624-the-ryan-tubridy-show-thursday-15-march-2018/?clipid=102757154#102757154

Description: Dr. Jules Montague joins Ryan in studio to talk about her work and matters of the mind.

Pat Kenny interview, Newstalk, March 3rd 2018

Link: http://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/The_Pat_Kenny_Show/Highlights_from_The_Pat_Kenny_Show/217370/What_happens_to_a_person_when_their_memory_disappears

Description: Neurologist and author Jules Montague joined Pat in studio to talk about her new book.

Edinburgh Science Festival, April 4th 2018

Link: https://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/lost-and-found

Description: Neurologist, Dr Jules Montague, explores what remains of the person left behind when the pieces of their mind go missing.

BBC Radio 3: Free Thinking, April 19th 2018

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09z67gr

Description: Shakespeare, Creativity and the Role of the Writer. Anne McElvoy presents.

Strong Words Magazine review, April 19th 2018

Link: http://strong-words.co.uk/

Review: "An excellent meditation on how the brain can't always be trusted to look after our memories and identity. She has spent her career wondering just what is going on in other people's heads, especially when the great unknowable sponge is at its most puzzling."

TEDx London, April 29th 2018

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JixHwulcLvg

Description: Tales from the Unexpected at Piccadilly Theatre.

Singapore Radio - Read with Michelle Martin. Money FM 89.3, May 4th 2018

Link: https://omny.fm/shows/money-fm-893/read-with-michelle-martin-dr-jules-montague-author

Daunt Books, Hampstead, June 6th 2018

Description: 'Lost and Found: Memory, Identity and who we become when we're no longer ourselves'.

ABC Radio Australia: All in the Mind, August 19th 2018

Description: Hosted by Lynne Malcolm. Memory Loss and Identity

Link: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/memory-loss-and-identity/10119238

Ilkley Literature Festival, September 29th 2018

Link: http://www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ILF-2018-Programme-digital.pdf

Cheltenham Literary Festival, October 10th 2018

Link: https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature/whats-on/2018/do-memories-make-us-who-we-are/

Folkestone Book Festival, November 17th 2018

Link: http://www.folkestonebookfest.com/

Oxford Literary Festival, April 7th 2019

Link: https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/authors-speakers/2018/jules-montague

New Scientist Live (London), October 13th 2019

Link: https://live.newscientist.com/speakers/jules-montague

Brainwash Festival, Amsterdam, October 26th 2019

Link: https://brainwashfestival.nl/programma/jules-montague-on-identity/

Arminius, Rotterdam, October 27th 2019

Link: https://arminius.nu/programma/hoe-brein-bepaald-jules-montague/