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How language shapes thought
28 oktober 2012 · 29 min
New empirical research suggests that language has a powerful influence over the way we think and perceive the world.
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The bilingual brain
21 oktober 2012 · 29 min
We explore how speaking more than one language influences our cognitive capacity.
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How children learn best
14 oktober 2012 · 29 min
Dr Judy Willis applies new knowledge in neuroscience to develop better learning strategies for children.
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Changing your brain
7 oktober 2012 · 29 min
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young tells the inspiring story of how she overcame her severe learning difficulties with specific brain exercises. We also hear the moving accounts of two Australians who’ve taken a leaf out of her book.
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Are we getting smarter
8 juli 2012 · 29 min
Are we getting smarter? We know our IQ scores have been steadily rising since we began measuring intelligence, but that’s not the full story. Moral philosopher James Flynn joins us to tackle the controversial questions of IQ in relation to race, gender and class. Lees meer
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Subliminal: the new unconscious
1 juli 2012 · 29 min
Leonard Mlodinow is a theoretical physicist who’s turned his mind to the unconscious. Not the unconscious mind of Freudian fame which was examined through psychoanalysis in the 19th century – but a new science of the unconscious made possible by technologies which reveal the physiology of our brains. We discuss the hidden forces that rule our behaviour. Lees meer
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The other end of shyness
24 juni 2012 · 29 min
Do you privately shake with nerves or shyly blush when the attention is on you? Most people experience some form of shyness but others are so immobilised by the fear of being judged negatively that they can barely function. Social phobia is the third most common mental illness after depression and substance abuse. We hear about one woman's 20 year struggle with social anxiety and some recent scientific findings about the brain activity associated with this disorder. Lees meer
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i-Disorder: the psychology of technology
17 juni 2012 · 29 min
Keeping up with phone calls, sms messages, Facebook updates, tweets ... sometimes it feels like technology rules our lives. Psychology of technology researcher Dr Larry Rosen warns that our technology is causing us to develop symptoms of disorders such as narcissistic personality disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder. He points out the warning signs of what he calls 'i-disorders' and suggests some strategies to maintain our humanity. Lees meer
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Young minds, the highs and lows
10 juni 2012 · 29 min
Adolescence and young adulthood is a time of life dominated by highs and lows – it’s part of normal development, but it’s also the time when people are at greatest risk of developing mental illness. We hear about some new approaches to assisting young people when they are at the most vulnerable. Lees meer
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Behind the Shock Machine
3 juni 2012 · 29 min
In 1961 Stanley Milgram conducted a controversial series of experiments which were said to show that we're all capable of evil in certain circumstances. Many of the participants are still traumatised. This is a panel discussion about the lessons and ethics of these experiments.. Lees meer
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Remembering together
27 mei 2012 · 29 min
We feel we should be able to recall all sorts of things at will—but how often do our individual memories fail us? As part of a study on social memory, a group of cognitive psychologists and philosophers heard the shared histories of long term married couples to investigate how they combine their memories. The strategies they use could help people with dementia. Lees meer
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The Creating Brain: reaching Xanadu
20 mei 2012 · 29 min
Is there anything different about the brains of extraordinary creative geniuses like Michelangelo, Coleridge or Mozart? World renowned psychiatrist and doctor of English Renaissance Literature Dr Nancy Andreasen unravels the 'creative brain' and explores how we can foster creativity in ourselves and throughout our society. Lees meer
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A history of memory
13 mei 2012 · 29 min
For centuries scientists have grappled with the concept of memory—what is it, how does it work and can we really rely on it? US historian Alison Winter traces the history of the way we have conceptualised memory—from the use of truth serums and hypnotism to the science of forgetting. She describes the way memory has been compared to filing cabinets, flashbulbs and motion pictures over the past century. Lees meer
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Our emotional brain
6 mei 2012 · 29 min
Pioneering neuroscientist Richard Davidson deepens our understanding of the mind-body connection. He’s identified six unique emotional styles and explains the brain chemistry underlying them. He explains that there are simple strategies and interventions which we can use to change our emotional styles. He believes one effective example is through mindfulness meditation, after studying the brain scans of people who practise it. Lees meer
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I hurt myself: the secrecy of self harm
29 april 2012 · 29 min
According to a large study on self injury conducted in 2008 by the University of Queensland, 220,000 Australians injured themselves deliberately, without meaning to suicide, in the month prior to the survey. For some people, hurting themselves is a way of coping with overwhelming psychological pain. In this program we hear about what mental processes go on behind this behaviour and we hear from a young woman who openly shares her experience of self injury in order to educate health workers about the best ways to treat people like her. Lees meer
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Orchids, dandelions and an intriguing set of genes
22 april 2012 · 29 min
Are you a sensitive flower -- like a vulnerable orchid, or more like a hardy dandelion? We explore the intriguing orchid–dandelion hypothesis which suggests that the genes that underlie our greatest weakness may also be the basis for our most positive traits, given the right environment. Lees meer
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All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 7: The Marco Polo of Neuroscience - V.S Ramachandran
21 januari 2012 · 29 min
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 swaps shows and slots for a season of an exciting new show The Body Sphere hosted by Amanda Smith. In April, All in the Mind returns for a season, presented by Lynne Malcolm. Body and mind hook up on ABC Radio National! 5pm Sundays, 1pm Mondays. Natasha Mitchell will now be hosting our national daily program Life Matters each weekday morning. Lees meer
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All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 6: The Power of Forgiveness
14 januari 2012 · 29 min
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 apartheid's most abhorrent killers, in jail, to explore forgiveness, psychological redemption and the symbolic language of trauma. Lees meer
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All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 5: The Banyan
7 januari 2012 · 29 min
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 triumph amongst the deepest despair. Lees meer
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All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 4: Brave New Brain
31 december 2011 · 29 min
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 cyborgian selves...we love to get heady and technical! Lees meer
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All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 3: Getting Personal
24 december 2011 · 29 min
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.
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All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 2: Are You Conscious?
17 december 2011 · 29 min
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 leading thinkers - it's a problem that continues to stump the brightest minds. Lees meer
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All in the Mind 10th Anniversary Special 1: Getting Sexy
10 december 2011 · 29 min
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 sex between your ears more important than the sex between your legs!? Lees meer
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Mind the gap! The seduction of the synapse
3 december 2011 · 30 min
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 making connections. Lees meer
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A personal tour: Sigmund Freud's Vienna
26 november 2011 · 30 min
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' there. Join Natasha Mitchell for a personal tour through the archives of the Fin de Siecle mind. Lees meer
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The case for moral enhancement - 2011 Adelaide Festival of Ideas
19 november 2011 · 29 min
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 enhancement itself. Could the future of humanity depend on it? Lees meer
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Loneliness: breaking the taboo
12 november 2011 · 30 min
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 like few. Lees meer
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Practice makes perfect?
5 november 2011 · 30 min
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 practice' - 10,000 hours of it, he argues - anything's possible. But does that trump 'natural talent'? Lees meer
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7 Billion: It's getting crowded in here! (extended special for Radio National's Population Weekend)
29 oktober 2011 · 54 min
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 seven billionth person about to be born, can we learn from the Asian megacity experience? And will we still be sharing a cup of sugar with our neighbours? As the population debate gets mental, we're going in search of the soul in urban sprawl. A forum featuring Bernard Salt, Kim Dovey, Helen Killmier, and Sein-Way Tan, hosted by ABC Radio National's Natasha Mitchell at The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne. Lees meer
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Sick, Screwed Up or Just Lazy? 2011 Adelaide Festival of Ideas
22 oktober 2011 · 30 min
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 people's distress - distress, dis-ease or disease? Lees meer
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The Marshmallow Test (broadcast edition) and Proust Was a Neuroscientist (podcast/Radio Australia edition)
15 oktober 2011 · 30 min
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 overseas edition is an archival feature instead, Proust was a Neuroscientist. Lees meer
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The Kill Factor (broadcast edition) and Brave New Mind (podcast/Radio Australia edition)
8 oktober 2011 · 30 min
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?
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On the Couch in a brain scanner! Putting the neuro back into Freud
1 oktober 2011 · 30 min
Putting the ego, id and subjective self back into the brain sciences, and vice versa. That's the ambitious quest of neuropsychoanalysis. Natasha Mitchell joins neuroscientist and psychoanalyst Dr Maggie Zellner in a very psychoanalytic sort of city, the Big Apple! Lees meer
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A nuclear plant in the neighbourhood
24 september 2011 · 29 min
Japanese psychoanalyst Dr Naoto Kawabata is working with devastated communities evacuated after the Tohoku earthquake and nuclear disaster in Fukushima Prefecture. Cardiff University's Understanding Risk team has studied people living adjacent to British nuclear plants, to explore how it shapes their identities. Probing the nuclear psyche. Lees meer
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Don't follow your instincts! Supernormal stimuli
17 september 2011 · 30 min
'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 use our big brains better. Lees meer
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A weight on my mind
10 september 2011 · 30 min
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.
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Profiling the criminal profilers - the inside story
3 september 2011 · 30 min
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 really work? Lees meer
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A healing imagination: clinical hypnosis for children
27 augustus 2011 · 30 min
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 appear to make the best candidates? Lees meer
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An inflammatory story: Depression and immunity
20 augustus 2011 · 30 min
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 reunite. Lees meer
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ABC East Africa Appeal (Saturday) & Child Soldiers: The Art and arts of healing (Monday/podcast)
13 augustus 2011 · 31 min
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. Dance and movement therapist David Alan Harris describes an extraordinary project to respond to the traumatised psyche through engaging the body. Lees meer
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Taking charge: mind, body and recovery
6 augustus 2011 · 30 min
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 suddenly paralysed, and the tables were turned - doctor became patient. Lees meer
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Neural engineering: the cutting edge of prosthetics
30 juli 2011 · 30 min
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, with potentially extraordinary possibilities for paralysed people. Lees meer
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Hell in Paradise: Mental health care in Bali
23 juli 2011 · 30 min
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 prominent local psychiatrist Dr Suryani, as she meets and speaks with families, determined to make a difference. Lees meer
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The precipice of creativity: the improvising mind
16 juli 2011 · 29 min
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 music that's more than noise -- and what's going on in their brains to make it all happen? Lees meer
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Dialogue with the Dalai Lama - Part 3 - Australian of the Year Patrick McGorry
9 juli 2011 · 30 min
Mental illness is reportedly on the rise in young people. Why? And, what role for secular ethics education in fostering developing minds? Patrick McGorry joins His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Natasha Mitchell in conversation.
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Dialogue with the Dalai Lama - Part 2 - Mirror neurons, our intersubjective minds and the limits of compassion
2 juli 2011 · 30 min
Marco Iacoboni studies mirror neurons -- what some dub 'Dalai Lama neurons' -- and believes they 'force us to rethink the deepest aspects of our very selves'. Psychologist Paul Ekman redefined the scientific study of emotion. They join Natasha Mitchell in dialogue with the Dalai Lama. Lees meer
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Dialogue with the Dalai Lama - Part 1 - happiness, sadness and everything in between
25 juni 2011 · 30 min
Is sadness important for happiness? How does compassion become a mental habit? From the Happiness and Its Causes Conference, His Holiness the Dalai Lama joins Natasha Mitchell with a panel of top scientific minds.
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Feature Series (Part 3 of 3) - Getting geeky at Gallaudet University
18 juni 2011 · 30 min
This is the century for visual communication: video conferencing, YouTube, smart phones -- and deaf people are at the forefront. We're getting geeky at the world's first and only deaf university, Gallaudet University in Washington DC. Scientific surprises too: could the genes that contribute to deafness have paradoxical benefits? Lees meer
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Feature Series (Part 2 of 3) - Encountering the aesthetics of deafness: deaf space, architecture and poetry
11 juni 2011 · 30 min
At the world's only deaf university, Gallaudet University in Washington DC, a radical rethink of what it means to occupy and design space is underway: it's called deaf architecture. From deaf space to sign language poetry, immerse yourself in a deaf sensory aesthetic, with surprising discoveries for us all. Lees meer
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Feature Series (Part 1 of 3) - Gallaudet University: the world's only deaf university
4 juni 2011 · 32 min
Gallaudet University in Washington DC is the world's first and only university for deaf students. Abraham Lincoln signed it into existence and its impact on the global deaf community has been enormous. From the radicalisation of deaf culture to the redefining 'Deaf President Now' protests of 1988, from the design ethos of deaf architecture to the aesthetics of sign language poetry and new bilingual pedagogies—join Natasha Mitchell on campus. Lees meer