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All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 7: The Marco Polo of Neuroscience - V.S Ramachandran Updated: 2012-01-21 02:05:00 Description: Natasha Mitchell has interviewed many of the world’s most celebrated thinkers on the mind over the past decade, and one the most creative is acclaimed neuroscientist and polymath of the brain Professor V.S Ramachandran. Next week, All in the Mind s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 6: The Power of Forgiveness Updated: 2012-01-14 02:05:00 Description: Psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela was on South Africa's historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission, chairing many of its tortuous public hearings about atrocities committed in the apartheid era. In an unprecedented dialogue she met with one of a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 5: The Banyan Updated: 2012-01-07 02:05:00 Description: All in the Mind is turning 10, and over the decade we've taken you across the globe to discover how the mind and its discontents are profoundly shaped by culture. A chance to meet again the incredible women of The Banyan in India - with stories of tr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 4: Brave New Brain Updated: 2011-12-31 02:05:00 Description: Celebrate All in the Mind's tenth birthday! Over the decade the show has tracked some of the provocative technological developments and ethical debates about our state of mind. From stem cell therapy to the spectre of animal-human chimeras or cyborgi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 3: Getting Personal Updated: 2011-12-24 02:05:00 Description: As All in the Mind turns 10, we're digging into the archives to get personal. It's a celebration of the neuro-narrative. Meet Electroboy, poet Sandy Jeffs...encounter a brain surgery and be moved by stories of life, loss and love....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 2: Are You Conscious? Updated: 2011-12-17 02:05:00 Description: All in the Mind started with Zombies back in 2002...not of the Day of the Living Dead kind, but the philosophical variety! Celebrate All in the Mind's 10th birthday with us. This week, Natasha revisits the great conundrum of human consciousness with ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 1: Getting Sexy Updated: 2011-12-10 02:05:00 Description: It's 10 years since Natasha Mitchell started All in the Mind and we're digging into the archives for you! This week, getting sexy in true adolescent spirit - the perplexing case of the female orgasm, getting your kicks in a brain scanner, and is the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mind the gap! The seduction of the synapse Updated: 2011-12-03 02:05:00 Description: Bah! All that talk about brain cells and grey matter! Let’s focus on where the real interesting action is inside your head: the connections between your brain cells – synapses. From the ancient past to the frenzied future - it's all about mak...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Apology for duplicate podcasts Updated: 2011-11-29 23:32:22 Description: We have just upgraded to a new website, and the move has caused some podcast subscribers to download duplicate mp3s. We apologise for this issue and hope you continue to listen to Radio National podcasts in the future....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-11-26 A personal tour: Sigmund Freud's Vienna Updated: 2011-11-25 14:00:00 Description: In the 50 years before he emigrated to escape the Nazis, Sigmund Freud, his wife Martha and six children lived and worked in the house at Berggasse 19 in Vienna. His most famous works were penned there, his most famous patients bared their 'souls' th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-11-19 The case for moral enhancement - 2011 Adelaide Festival of Ideas. Updated: 2011-11-18 14:00:00 Description: Oxford-based, Australian bioethicist Julian Savulescu is a provocateur. He's argued the case for a 'new eugenics' and that we have a moral obligation to pursue human perfection. Now he thinks we should be using science and technology for moral enhanc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-11-12 Loneliness: breaking the taboo Updated: 2011-11-11 14:00:00 Description: Loneliness has been with Emily White for as long as she can remember. Smart, savvy, popular - none of this has inoculated her against 'the ghost in her life'. Her memoir is an encounter with the emerging, powerful science of loneliness, and a taboo l...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-11-05 Practice makes perfect? Updated: 2011-11-04 14:00:00 Description: The virtuoso violinist, star surgeon and super sportswoman - could any of us become the best of the best? Daniel Coyle toured the world's famous talent 'hotbeds' in search of secrets. Psychologist K. Anders Ericsson says with enough 'deliberate pract...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-10-29 7 Billion: It´s getting crowded in here! (extended special for Radio National's Population Weekend) Updated: 2011-10-28 14:00:00 Description: High density living is great for the environment, right? But what does it do to our heads and hearts? The Australian psyche was moulded by the myth of the 'wide brown land', so what might life packed like sardines look and feel like? With the world's...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-10-22 Sick, Screwed Up or Just Lazy? - 2011 Adelaide Festival of Ideas Updated: 2011-10-21 14:00:00 Description: Determined advocacy has put the mental health of young Australians front and centre on the public agenda. But child psychiatrist Professor Jon Jureidini is concerned. He's outspoken about the way his profession is interpreting and responding to young...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-10-15 The Marshmallow Test (broadcast edition) and Proust Was a Neuroscientist (podcast/Radio Australia edition) Updated: 2011-10-14 14:00:00 Description: It started with two marshmallows back in the 1960s, and it became one of the most influential experiments in 21st century psychology. Walter Mischel on the role of willpower and the developing mind. Due to BBC copyright reasons the podcast and overse...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-10-08 The Kill Factor (broadcast edition) and Brave New Mind (podcast/Radio Australia edition) Updated: 2011-10-07 14:00:00 Description: Natural born killer? If humans are born for survival, how hard is it to train us to kill for war, and what's the psychological impact of ending another person's life? The BBC's Stephen Evans meets soldiers and hears their stories of war, killing, a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-10-01 On the Couch in a brain scanner!: Putting the neuro back into Freud Updated: 2011-09-30 14:00:00 Description: Putting the ego, id and subjective Self back into the brain sciences, and vice versa. That's the ambitious quest of Neuro-psychoanalysis. Natasha Mitchell joins neuroscientist and psychoanalyst, Dr Maggie Zellner, in a very psychoanalytic sort of cit...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-09-24 A nuclear plant in the neighbourhood Updated: 2011-09-23 14:00:00 Description: Japanese psychoanalyst Dr Naoto Kawabata is working with devastated communities evacuated after the Tohoku earthquake & nuclear disaster in Fukushima Prefecture. Cardiff University's Understanding Risk team has studied people living adjacent to Briti...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-09-17 Don´t follow your instincts! Supernormal stimuli Updated: 2011-09-16 14:00:00 Description: 'Follow your instincts' - it's that old adage we all hold true. Well, don´t. Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett argues our ancestral minds are leading us astray in a 21st century world. From obesity to beauty, warfare to television, it's time to u...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-09-10 A Weight on my Mind Updated: 2011-09-09 14:00:00 Description: Nick says he's going to die if he doesn´t lose weight. He knows he should eat less. He knows he should move more. How do our minds sabotage us, in concert with our bodies? A probing look at the psychology of obesity....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-09-03 Profiling the criminal profilers - the inside story Updated: 2011-09-02 14:00:00 Description: Criminal profiling has captured the pop culture psyche - from CSI to The Silence of the Lambs, with star forensic psychologists who have an uncanny knack for getting inside the criminal mind. But what's profiling like in the real world - and does it ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-08-27 A healing imagination: clinical hypnosis for children Updated: 2011-08-26 14:00:00 Description: Hypnosis conjures up images of side shows and circus acts, but its use in medicine is growing, and with impressive results - especially with children. From insomnia to irritable bowel syndrome - how does it work, are there risks and why do kids appea...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-08-20 An inflammatory story: Depression and immunity Updated: 2011-08-19 14:00:00 Description: Hippocrates thought melancholia was caused by too much black bile. Now some scientists describe the Black Dog as an inflammatory illness. Heart disease, oxidative stress and omega 3 are all part of the compelling story too, where body and mind reunit...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-08-13 ABC East Africa Appeal (Saturday) & Child Soldiers: The Art and arts of healing (Monday/podcast) Updated: 2011-08-12 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. D...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-08-06 Taking charge: mind, body and recovery Updated: 2011-08-05 14:00:00 Description: Child and adolescent psychiatrist Professor Graham Martin is an international leader in suicide prevention, educator, researcher, a sometime thespian, poet, mediator and black belt in Karate. But in 2009, life took a radical turn when he was suddenl...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-07-30 Neural engineering: the cutting edge of prosthetics Updated: 2011-07-29 14:00:00 Description: Imagine if thoughts could move matter? US Army Sergeant Glen Lehman lost his arm at the end of his tour of duty in Iraq - now he's trialling a limb he controls with his mind alone. And, pioneering neural engineer Andrew Schwartz decodes monkey minds...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-07-23 Hell in Paradise: Mental health care in Bali Updated: 2011-07-22 14:00:00 Description: Bali is a tropical holiday paradise, but there's a darker side few tourists witness. People with mental illness being chained, caged, or shackled by their family members, often in shocking conditions. All in the Mind joins the rural rounds of promine...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-07-16 The precipice of creativity: the improvising mind Updated: 2011-07-15 14:00:00 Description: Whether it´s choosing words to make up a sentence or walking along a crowded street, we´re all capable of improvising. But musical improvisation fills us with amazement. How do musicians make the moment-by-moment decisions to create spontaneous mus...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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