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2010-02-06 Stem cells and brain tales Updated: 2010-02-05 14:00:00 Description: Acclaimed neuroscientist Fred Gage is a serial trailblazer. Decades of dogma were overturned when his team confirmed the adult brain continues to make new brain cells. Incredibly, now scientists can even turn skin cells into brain cells with a chemic...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2010-01-30 David Eagleman: The afterlife, synesthesia and other tales of the senses Updated: 2010-01-29 14:00:00 Description: Neuroscientist by day, novelist by night - David Eagleman has just written an extraordinary little novel about the afterlife. He´s also a leading researcher in synesthesia, studying people who taste sounds, hear colours, and live in a remarkable wor...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2010-01-23 Autism: genetics, early detection and the ethics of screening newborns Updated: 2010-01-22 14:00:00 Description: News of the largest studies on the genetics of autism to date is out, paving the way for genetic risk testing in the future. And, Australian research suggests autistic behaviours can be detected as early as eight months. So should we be screening new...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2010-01-16 Child soldiers: the Art and arts of healing Updated: 2010-01-15 14:00:00 Description: Born into the bloody horror of war, Sudanese rap artist Emmanuel Jal was 9 when he was recruited into the Sudanese Peoples´ Liberation Army as a child soldier. Incredibly he survived, and his music reaches a generation of Lost Boys....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2010-01-09 Dreams: the stuff memories are made of? (Part 2 of 2) Updated: 2010-01-08 14:00:00 Description: Dreams feel meaningful—drawn from a mishmash of content from our waking lives. But it's a hot debate among scientists, who are yet to confirm why we sleep, let alone dream. Neuroscientist Matthew Wilson's extraordinary experiments involve eaves...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2010-01-02 Dreams: the body alive! (Part 1 of 2) Updated: 2010-01-01 14:00:00 Description: Jungian psychoanalyst and psychotherapist Robert Bosnak is a dream worker. To him dreams are an ecosystem of imaginings—powerful bodily experiences populated by characters with their own intelligences. When you encounter the images of your drea...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-12-26 The philosophy of good intentions Updated: 2009-12-25 14:00:00 Description: Reading the minds of others can be darned hard. Are their intentions good, bad or indifferent? Whether we hold people accountable for their behaviour depends on the answer. Scientists probe questions like this through experiments. Philosophers tradit...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-12-19 Dialogue with the Dalai Lama - Part 3 of 3 Updated: 2009-12-18 14:00:00 Description: His Holiness the Dalai Lama joins All in the Mind's Natasha Mitchell and leading scholars in a dialogue about science and the self. This week, founder of the field of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, and Buddhist scholar Alan Wallace consider wi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-12-12 Dialogue with the Dalai Lama - Part 2 of 3 Updated: 2009-12-11 14:00:00 Description: His Holiness the Dalai Lama joins All in the Mind's Natasha Mitchell and leading scholars in a dialogue about science, wellbeing and our moral minds. This week Harvard evolutionary biologist and author of Moral Minds, Marc Hauser, asks - does biology...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-12-05 Dialogue with the Dalai Lama: Part 1 Updated: 2009-12-04 14:00:00 Description: From the stage of the 2009 Mind and Its Potential conference, His Holiness the Dalai Lama joins All in the Mind's Natasha Mitchell in an extended conversation about the mind, science and much else. And, joining the dialogue over coming weeks is the f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-11-28 Dive into your Gene Pool! Updated: 2009-11-27 14:00:00 Description: Evolution, mutation and transformation -- what do these themes evoke for you? Genes mutate, but so do bodies, brains and cultures. Celebrate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and dive into the Gene Pool. We invited y...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-11-21 Climate change and the psyche Updated: 2009-11-20 14:00:00 Description: In his new book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change, top British climate scientist Mike Hulme wants to understand climate change as a psychological and cultural force. Anthropologist Jonathan Marshall has just edited a provocative collection of Jun...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-11-14 Michael Gazzaniga: Split brains and other heady tales (highlight from the archives) Updated: 2009-11-13 14:00:00 Description: Beyond the hype of left brain versus right brain lies the work of acclaimed neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga. His career was forged in the lab of Nobel laureate Roger Sperry, and together their trailblazing experiments have illuminated the difference...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-11-07 The secret life of bacteria - small, smart and thoughtful! [Highlight from the archive] Updated: 2009-11-06 14:00:00 Description: We can´t survive without them -- and we´ve long underestimated their prowess. Controversially, bacteria could even have cognitive talents that rival our own. Predatory behaviour, cooperation, memory -- Jules Verne eat your heart out -- Natasha Mitc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-10-31 The eyes have it! Deep time and future vision Updated: 2009-10-30 14:00:00 Description: Some call the eyes the window on the soul. Trevor Lamb has been gazing into the eyes of living fossil 'fishy' beings, and deep into evolutionary time to unravel the beginnings of our incredible seeing organ. And what about its future? A myopia explos...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-10-24 Addiction, free will and self control Updated: 2009-10-23 14:00:00 Description: Heard the one about the psychiatrist, the Supreme Court judge and the philosopher who walked in to a radio studio...? Join Natasha Mitchell and guests in a round-table interrogation of how the brain sciences are changing our understanding of addictio...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-10-17 Hearing Voices: stories from the coalface Updated: 2009-10-16 14:00:00 Description: Mel was dux of her high school with bright prospects. At 25, she needs 24 hour family care, persecuted by a violent voice in her head who she calls Ron. Journalist Tom Tilley takes us to meet Mel and her family for a rare, raw and intimate insight in...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-10-10 You are NOT a Self! - bodies, brains and the nature of consciousness Updated: 2009-10-09 14:00:00 Description: German philosopher of mind Thomas Metzinger is one of the world´s top researchers on consciousness, instrumental in its renaissance as a respectable problem for scientific enquiry. From out of body experiences to lucid dreaming, anarchic hand syndr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-10-03 Quality Street Updated: 2009-10-02 14:00:00 Description: Quality Street was the first ABC weekly program dedicated to Poetry. It began in 1946 and ran for 27 years ...ending in 1973. What we are going to hear today are two programs, featuring AD Hope and Kenneth Slessor, from the later years of the show .....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-09-26 Dark Science: Pushing the limits of fear, flesh, pain and your psyche. Updated: 2009-09-25 14:00:00 Description: Join us at the Dark Science night at Sydney´s Powerhouse Museum for a spectacle of side show science and (almost) R-rated research. Suspension artists hang from hooks through their flesh, tattoo artists ply their wares, and don´t miss the spiders a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-09-19 The coming of "The Singularity"...or not? Updated: 2009-09-18 14:00:00 Description: Imagine a future where computers exceed our own intelligence; where problem solving is no longer limited by human thinking - what then? It´s a moment in technological time some call "The Singularity". But how much is technological reality, and how m...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-09-12 Sex, Knowledge and Science (Adelaide Festival of Ideas) Updated: 2009-09-11 14:00:00 Description: Doing science has no room for gender and agendas, right? It's all about the objective pursuit of facts and truths about nature. Or is it? Acclaimed historian of science Londa Schiebinger, and top philosophers Simon Blackburn and Karen Green join Nata...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-09-05 Psychogeography: discovering the mental terrain of the city Updated: 2009-09-04 14:00:00 Description: All in the Mind takes you on an extraordinarily ordinary journey across the mental and physical terrain of a big city. For many the ideal method of urban travel is straight out of Star Trek—teleporting. But in the 21st century city there are fl...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-08-29 Minds on the Margins Updated: 2009-08-28 14:00:00 Description: A life on the streets or behind bars isn´t what we hope for our children. What leads them there? Mental illness? Family breakdown? Economic hardship? Two groundbreaking studies are fundamentally challenging the assumptions we make about our most ma...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-08-22 Many Selves, One Body: Dissociation and early trauma Updated: 2009-08-21 14:00:00 Description: We all dissociate to a degree—compartmentalising major traumatic experiences in our psyche to protect ourselves. But Dissociation Identity Disorder is the extreme end, where a person might present multiple selves or 'alters' to the world withou...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-08-15 Art on the Mind: Neuroaesthetics, and the artist as brain scientist! Updated: 2009-08-14 14:00:00 Description: Acclaimed neuroscientist Semir Zeki pioneered the field of neuroaesthetics to probe the biological basis of the aesthetic experience, art, literature, love and beauty. He thinks scientists have lots to learn about the brain from the works of visual a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-08-08 Do you read me HAL? Robot wars, moral machines and silicon that cares - Part 2 Updated: 2009-08-07 14:00:00 Description: The theatre of war is changing, radically. With a push towards autonomous, robotic devices capable of killing - should the Laws of War change? One artificial intelligence leader argues machines could be more ethical and humane than humans in the batt...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-08-01 Do you read me HAL? Robot wars, moral machines and silicon that cares - Part 1 Updated: 2009-07-31 14:00:00 Description: Robots are among us. They might be on their way in to childcare and aged care as silicon carers too. And, many thousands have now been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, with billions being invested in the development of entirely autonomous killing ag...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-07-25 Madness, modernity and those 'nervous times': Vienna in 1900 Updated: 2009-07-24 14:00:00 Description: Journey to Vienna at the turn of the 20th century and discover the `city of the psyche´ at the centre of Modernism. Described as 'nervous times', anxieties about the alienation of modern urban life inspired a cultural ferment between artists, archit...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-07-18 Mind Over Matter at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas Updated: 2009-07-17 14:00:00 Description: Is the human mind smart enough to ever understand itself? The size of a sesame seed, bees brains are brighter than you think - but do they have a mind? And, if we come up with an artificial intelligence to rival our own, how will we teach it right fr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-07-11 The Mind of the Composer: Part 2 - Maurice Ravel [on air edition] + Unconditional Love [podcast edition] Updated: 2009-07-10 14:00:00 Description: Acclaimed doctor and broadcaster Lord Robert Winston investigates the mind, music and dementia of composer Maurice Ravel. For copyright reasons, this week's podcast is another feature Love is a Battlefield: When Heidi and Rick Solomon adopted a son r...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-07-04 The Mind of the Composer Part 1: Robert Schumann [on-air edition] + The Moral Mind [podcast edition] Updated: 2009-07-03 14:00:00 Description: Acclaimed doctor and broadcaster Lord Robert Winston excavates the music and mind of composer Robert Schumann, to see if there was a relationship between the two. Schumann died at just 46 in a mental asylum, with speculation today that he had bipolar...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-06-27 Love is a battlefield: parenting an autistic child Updated: 2009-06-26 14:00:00 Description: Parents of a severely autistic child can be pushed to breaking point. Do we have unrealistic expectations of what they should be capable of? David and Karen Royko came to make an impossible decision about their son Ben, and share their story with can...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-06-20 David Eagleman: The afterlife, synesthesia and other tales of the senses Updated: 2009-06-19 14:00:00 Description: Neuroscientist by day, novelist by night - David Eagleman has just written an extraordinary little novel about the afterlife. He´s also a leading researcher in synesthesia, studying people who taste sounds, hear colours, and live in a remarkable wor...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-06-13 Secrets and lies: The untold story of adoption Updated: 2009-06-12 14:00:00 Description: Shame, guilt, loss, and grief - giving up a baby at birth can leave a powerful and permanent psychological imprint on a young mother. Countless Australian women without a wedding band were forced to relinquish their babies for adoption. Don´t miss t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-05-30 Child soldiers: the Art and arts of healing (Part 1 of 2) Updated: 2009-05-29 14:00:00 Description: Born into the bloody horror of war, Sudanese rap artist Emmanuel Jal was 9 when he was recruited into the Sudanese Peoples´ Liberation Army as a child soldier. Incredibly he survived, and his music reaches a generation of Lost Boys. And next week, a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-06-06 Child soldiers: the Art and arts of healing (Part 2 of 2) Updated: 2009-06-05 14:00:00 Description: In Sierra Leone, child soldiers committed acts that words can barely describe. At the war's end, ravaged communities responded to them with terror and stigma. A minority of former child soldiers, many orphaned, have access to reintegration programs. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-05-23 Antidepressants, placebo and medicalising mood Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Description: When Professor Irving Kirsch and colleagues got hold of the unpublished data from drug company trials of antidepressants, it hit the headlines. But their analysis - that antidepressants and placebo pills have about the same clinical impact - was wide...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-05-16 Autism: genetics, early detection and the ethics of screening newborns Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Description: News of the largest studies on the genetics of autism to date is out, paving the way for genetic risk testing in the future. And, Australian research suggests autistic behaviours can be detected as early as eight months. So should we be screening new...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-05-09 The silent disability: Acquired Brain Injury and the justice system Updated: 2009-05-08 14:00:00 Description: Impulsive behaviour, anger, mood swings, poor concentration, memory loss. A knock to the head that qualifies as a brain injury can transform your behaviour in unexpected ways. Confronting research suggests acquired or traumatic brain injuries - past ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-04-18 Thomas Szasz: psychiatrists respond Updated: 2009-04-17 14:00:00 Description: Controversial psychiatrist Professor Thomas Szasz wrote The Myth of Mental Illness in 1961. Nearly 50 years later, on the eve of his 89th birthday, he continues to both ignite and inspire -- as the huge number of comments on the All in the Mind blog ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-04-25 Comedy and the psyche Updated: 2009-04-24 14:00:00 Description: Good comedians push us where few of us dare to go -- we find ourselves rolling in the aisles with shock and delight. Two top-of-the-bill acts at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival reflect on Freud, the comedic psyche and the power of the pot...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-04-11 Thomas Szasz speaks (Part 2 of 2) Updated: 2009-04-10 14:00:00 Description: In 1961 maverick psychiatrist and libertarian Professor Thomas Szasz published his controversial and influential epic, The Myth of Mental Illness. Half a century later he maintains we live in a therapeutic state—a `pharmacracy´—and that ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-04-04 Thomas Szasz speaks (Part 1 of 2) Updated: 2009-04-03 14:00:00 Description: In 1961 maverick psychiatrist and libertarian Professor Thomas Szasz published his controversial and influential epic, The Myth of Mental Illness. In it he argued that mental illness is a fiction and a medical metaphor. Half a century later he mainta...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-03-21 Doctoring with Darwinian medicine Updated: 2009-03-20 14:00:00 Description: Look in your doctor´s kitbag, and you´ll probably find a stethoscope, a thermometer, a first-aid kit. But a copy of Charles Darwin´s Origin of Species too? `Darwinian Medicine´ asks: why do we get sick, and why didn't the body evolve to be better...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-03-14 Ancient brains: Rare finds and past lives Updated: 2009-03-13 14:00:00 Description: Archaeologists in Yorkshire have dug up a 2000 year old human skull, incredibly with brain tissue still intact. When this brain last saw the world, the Romans were yet to invade Britain and tribes occupied the North. And in another stunning find - t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-03-07 Dreams: the stuff memories are made of? (Part 2 of 2) Updated: 2009-03-06 14:00:00 Description: Dreams feel meaningful—drawn from a mishmash of content from our waking lives. But it's a hot debate among scientists, who are yet to confirm why we sleep, let alone dream. Neuroscientist Matthew Wilson's extraordinary experiments involve eaves...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-02-28 Dreams - the body alive! (Part 1 of 2) Updated: 2009-02-27 14:00:00 Description: Jungian psychoanalyst and psychotherapist Robert Bosnak is a dream worker. To him dreams are an ecosystem of imaginings - powerful bodily experiences populated by characters with their own intelligences. When you encounter the images of your dreaming...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-02-21 The philosophy of good intentions Updated: 2009-02-20 14:00:00 Description: Reading the minds of others can be darned hard. Are their intentions good, bad or indifferent? Whether we hold people accountable for their behaviour depends on the answer. Scientists probe questions like this through experiments. Philosophers tradit...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-02-14 All in the Mind and the Philosopher's Zone special: Happy Birthday Charles Darwin Updated: 2009-02-13 14:00:00 Description: The human animal is a complex beast—we mate, fight, emote, and socialise in curious ways. Charles Darwin´s theories continue to provoke controversy over how and why we behave the way we do. Join leading evolutionary scientists and philosophers...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-02-07 The big buzz-ness of small brains Updated: 2009-02-06 14:00:00 Description: Wait! Before you reach for the insect spray - listen to this show. From robotic crickets to bees that see in the dark, meet a couple of neuroethologists probing the incomprehensibly small, but surprisingly brilliant, brains of bugs....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-01-31 Music: Is it really therapeutic? Updated: 2009-01-30 14:00:00 Description: Music undoubtedly makes us feel good. But is it therapeutic? Does it have a place in healing the psychological, even physical, scars of illness? From the intimacy of a neonatal ward to the ravages of cancer treatment, enter the world of three Austral...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-01-24 Poetic Science: Bodies, brains and the art of experimentation Updated: 2009-01-23 14:00:00 Description: Meet polymath Ian Gibbins -- neuroscientist, anatomist and university professor by day; poet, performer and composer by night. In a unique audio portrait, All in the Mind takes you inside all of his worlds; contemplating cadavers, nerve cells and th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-01-17 Greening the Psyche Updated: 2009-09-05 00:00:00 Description: Intuitively we sense that nature relaxes us -- even small pockets of green in the concrete urban jungle seem to make a difference. But finding good scientific evidence for how and why has been more difficult -- until now. Crime rates, academic perfor...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-12-20 Disembodied brains, culture and science: Indigenous lives under gaze (Part 1 of 2) Updated: 2008-12-19 14:00:00 Description: The incredible saga of Ishi, California´s last 'wild' Indian, is the stuff of American folklore. It´s also the quest for a lost brain, taken from Ishi´s tuberculosis ravaged body at death—only to be rediscovered and repatriated 80 years late...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-12-27 Disembodied brains, culture and science: Indigenous lives under gaze [Part 2 of 2] Updated: 2008-12-26 14:00:00 Description: Maori people believe the body is derived from the earth, and returns to the ancestral earth at death—complete. The flesh, and all its bits, are sacred. The new Human Tissue Bill in New Zealand has provoked debate over who owns your body at dea...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-01-03 A day in the life of...Meet the Ingersons Updated: 2009-01-02 14:00:00 Description: Four-year-old Tara has a very special brain. Like Rain Man, she was born without a Corpus Callosum. It´s the head´s superhighway -- a thick band of nerve fibres connecting the two hemispheres of the brain. Join Natasha Mitchell as she experiences a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2009-01-10 Your irrational mind Updated: 2009-01-09 14:00:00 Description: Like it or not, you´re not the beast of reason you think you are. Dan Ariely, a behavioural economist at MIT, argues that we´re surprisingly and predictably irrational. Sex, freebies, expectations, placebos, price -- they all cloud our better judgm...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-12-06 Extraordinary Cases in psychology: Part 4 of 4 - Little Hans and the Oedipus Complex Updated: 2008-12-05 14:00:00 Description: The Oedipus Complex - Dr Sigmund Freud´s unusual theory that children desire their parent of opposite sex, and want harm to come to the other - has provoked much controversy. Head back to 1904, and it was a little Viennese boy´s phobia of horses who ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-10-25 The secret life of bacteria - small, smart and thoughtful! Updated: 2008-10-24 14:00:00 Description: We can´t survive without them -- and we´ve long underestimated their prowess. Controversially, bacteria could even have cognitive talents that rival our own. Predatory behaviour, cooperation, memory -- Jules Verne eat your heart out -- Natasha Mitche...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-05-10 Quitting the habit: neurobiology, addiction and the insidious ciggie Updated: 2008-05-09 14:00:00 Description: Smokers cling to the ciggies for dear life, knowing it will likely be a much shorter one. An anti-smoking drug released in Australia targets nicotine receptors in the brain, working differently to traditional nicotine replacement therapies. But are...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-03-22 Your inner ape Updated: 2008-03-21 14:00:00 Description: Apes are our closest relatives -- nearly 99% of our genes are identical -- but how do our inner lives compare? Culture, empathy, language, learning -- do chimps have the smarts to pull these off? Channel your `inner ape´ with the world´s top primato...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-03-15 The psyche on Death Row Updated: 2008-03-14 14:00:00 Description: Four Australians remain on Death Row in prisons offshore. Guilty or innocent -- what does facing your demise by another´s hand do to the psyche? This week, extraordinary first hand accounts from men who spent decades incarcerated on Death Row. And, p...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-03-08 Part 2 of 2 - The Nature of Consciousness debate Updated: 2008-03-07 14:00:00 Description: Zombies, coma, conscious robots - be prepared to travel to places you may have been too scared to go before. From the Australian Science Festival, UK psychologist and writer Susan Blackmore, astrophysicist Paul Davies, and philosopher David Chalmers ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2007-12-22 Deep listening: working with Indigenous mental distress Updated: 2007-12-21 14:00:00 Description: 'How do I get them to talk?' Hinted-at events, listening to the silence, roundabout stories. Mental health and other professionals inexperienced at working with Indigenous clients struggle with the limits of their cultural awareness, with language b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2007-12-29 PANIC! A cultural history Updated: 2007-12-26 00:00:00 Description: From the collective paranoia of Cold War hysteria to the medicated, disordered mind - sociologist and performance artist Jackie Orr has penned a passionate and political history of panic. She delved into the rich archives of the war-time psyche, con...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-01-05 The Blind Brain Updated: 2007-12-26 00:00:00 Description: A completely blind artist paints perfect replicas of the world he´s never seen. An Indian child born with cataracts miraculously gains full visual capacity at age 12. People born blind experience their `seeing´ mind in different ways, and are helping...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-01-12 Julie´s Story: Diary of a brain tumour Updated: 2007-12-26 00:00:00 Description: Like many young Australians in their early 20s, writer Julie Deakin headed to Europe for her first `Big Adventure´. But holidaying in Hungary with her sister she found herself diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour and scheduled for immediate sur...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-01-19 Behind the scenes: animal experimentation ethics committees Updated: 2007-12-26 00:00:00 Description: A rare glimpse from the inside. An Australian neuroscientist and an animal welfarist share their experiences of working together on animal experimental and ethics committees. Personal philosophies are challenged, compromises are made, and change happ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2008-01-26 The Neurobiology of Suicide Updated: 2007-12-26 00:00:00 Description: Psychiatrist and neuroscientist, John Mann, has a grisly job. He wants to understand why some deeply depressed souls take their own lives, yet others resist. His team's post-mortem studies suggest a distinct neurobiology of suicide. And, for those le...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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