All in the Mind
All In The Mind is Radio National's weekly foray into the mental universe, the mind, brain and behaviour - everything from addiction to artificial intelligence.
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4 Episodes of this Podcast:
2010-02-06 Stem cells and brain tales
Published: 2010-02-05 09:00:00Acclaimed 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 chemical push! But, if their potential to treat brain diseases or damage is to be realised, transplanted cells need to be able to call your brain home. Stanford biologist James Weimann has a major advance.
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2010-01-30 David Eagleman: The afterlife, synesthesia and other tales of the senses
Published: 2010-01-29 09:00:00Neuroscientist 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 world of sensory cross-talk. He joins Natasha Mitchell in conversation about life, death and the in-between.
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2010-01-23 Autism: genetics, early detection and the ethics of screening newborns
Published: 2010-01-22 09:00:00News 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 newborns for neurological disorders like autism? The ethical debate unfolds on All in the Mind.
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2010-01-16 Child soldiers: the Art and arts of healing
Published: 2010-01-15 09:00:00Born 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.
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