Neuroscience
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- Posted8 March 2017
The Why Factor. Torture. Audio, 18 minutes
Does torture actually work, and can its use ever be justified?
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Playing Tennis in a Coma. Audio, 28 minutes
Researchers and families discuss a study of consciousness in patients with brain injuries.
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CrowdScience. Does it Pay to be Nice? Audio, 27 minutes
Is being a team player and putting yourself second really the best strategy?
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Curious Cases. Series 4, The Lost Producer. Audio, 18 minutes
Why do some people have a terrible sense of direction?
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Curious Cases. Series 4, The Bad Moon Rising. Audio, 15 minutes
Does the full moon make us act strangely?
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Health Check. How Memories are Made and Lost. Audio, 27 minutes
How memories are made and lost? Three prize winning scientists discuss latest research
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The Life Scientific. Richard Morris on how we know where we are. Audio, 28 minutes
Neuroscientist Richard Morris explains how brain cells remember.
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Health Check. What’s the Mind Doing When it is Daydreaming? Audio, 27 minutes
Claudia Hammond peers inside the wandering mind
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The Anatomy of Rest. Does the brain rest? Audio, 42 minutes
Claudia Hammond looks at the brain at rest, and mind wandering and its role in creativity.
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The King of Dreams. Audio, 30 minutes
Alice Roberts goes in search of the man who taught us how to control our own dreams.
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Mind Reading. Audio, 28 minutes
Gaia Vince explores how scientists are trying to read others' minds..
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The Why Factor. Time Perception. Audio, 18 minutes
Mike Williams asks why some weeks just fly by but sometimes minutes can seem like hours?
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The Essay. A Body of Essays: Series 2, A Body of Essays: Philip Kerr - Breaking Brain. Audio, 15 minutes
Crime writer Philip Kerr explains how brain surgery has advanced over the years.
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Word of Mouth. Language Evolution: A Gene for Language? Audio, 28 minutes
Neuroscientist Dr Frederique Liegeois joins Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright.
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The Nature of Paedophilia. Audio, 28 minutes
Matthew Hill explores the science behind the psychiatric disorder paedophilia.
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The Life Scientific. Anil Seth on consciousness. Audio, 28 minutes
Anil Seth discusses the hard problem of understanding consciousness with Jim Al-Khalili.
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My Head. Audio, 28 minutes
A true story of brain injury, recovery and discovery.
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Discovery. The Teenage Brain: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore. Audio, 27 minutes
A cognitive neuroscientist unlocks the mysteries of the teenage brain
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The Life Scientific. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on teenage brains. Audio, 28 minutes
Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her research on the teenage brain
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The Why Factor. Forgetting. Audio, 18 minutes
Why do we lose our memories, and why are there are some things we can not forget?
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The Life Scientific. John O'Keefe on memory. Audio, 28 minutes
2014 Nobel Prize-winner John O'Keefe talks to Jim Al-Khalili.
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Exchanges at the Frontier. Exchanges At The Frontier, Emotion of Decision Making. Audio, 55 minutes
Does emotion influence decision-making and do we make worse decisions as we get older?
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Desert Island Discs. Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell. Audio, 44 minutes
Kirsty Young interviews Prof Dame Nancy Rothwell.
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