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Delving into all things mental: the latest research and expert commentary on our brains and behaviour. Primary Format : Health Also Listed as: Health City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown Country : Australia Country : OC User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of All In The Mind Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of All In The Mind Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of All In The Mind Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. 2008-05-10 Quitting the habit: neurobiology, addiction and the insidious ciggie 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 we too fixed on a quick fix for addiction? And, the challenge of investigating post-marketing reports that the drug may trigger suicidal thoughts and behaviour in some users. Real side effect of the meds, or part of nicotine withdrawal? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-05-03 Disembodied brains, culture and science: Indigenous lives under gaze [Part 2 of 2] 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 death—you or your family? The Maori Party argues the legislation is Western-centric and racist. And, a young Maori scientist working with post-mortem brain tissue is breaking new ground, to keep her lab life 'culturally safe', in consultation ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-04-26 Disembodied brains, culture and science: Indigenous lives under gaze (Part 1 of 2) 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 later. And next week - a young Maori scientist working with post-mortem brain tissue is breaking new ground, to keep her lab life "culturally safe". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-04-12 A day in the life of...Meet the Ingersons 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 day in the life of the Ingerson family, with rare insights into one of the most complicated neurological birth defects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-04-05 Poetic Science: Bodies, brains and the art of experimentation 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 the creative arts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-03-29 Your irrational mind 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 judgment in rather sobering ways. Dan´s unique research was partly inspired by a catastrophic accident which caused third degree burns to 70% of his body. He joins Natasha Mitchell in conversation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-03-22 Your inner ape 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 primatologists as they unearth surprising results. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-03-15 The psyche on Death Row 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, psychologists investigating the state of the confined mind. Listen to an extended interview with former Florida death row inmate, Juan Melendez (exonerated 2002). Download MP3 Audio [9.13MB] Listen to an extended interview with former Ohio dea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-03-08 Part 2 of 2 - The Nature of Consciousness debate 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 join Natasha Mitchell to debate one of the greatest mysteries of science - the nature of human consciousness. Will science ever be able to explain that uncanny feeling from the inside of being an "I" or a "Me"? Do cats and dogs have the same fee ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-03-01 Part 1 of 2 - The Nature of Consciousness debate Don your helmets psychonauts! Over the next two weeks, the 'Nature of Consciousness' debate from the Australian Science Festival. Join UK psychologist and writer Susan Blackmore, astrophysicist Paul Davies, and philosopher David Chalmers. Are you conscious now? How do you know? Could it all be a grand illusion? We know it more intimately than any other experience. Yet it remains one of the greatest mysteries of science. From animal minds to artificial intelligence, altered states to the dep ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-02-23 Women offenders: Confronting the confronting Cases of filicide and infanticide confront us to our core -- but what leads women to kill their own children? And, from cognitive therapy to chemical castration -- most treatments for sexual offenders target men. Do women offenders require a different approach? Three female forensic specialists join Natasha Mitchell with a rare glimpse into a world riddled with taboo and revulsion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-02-16 Greening the Psyche 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 performance, aggression and even ADHD. Could a bit of greening make all the difference? And, ecology on the couch - a self described 'ecotherapist' with novel techniques. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-02-09 Proust was a neuroscientist Of course Proust wasn´t a neuroscientist. Or was he? Science writer Jonah Lehrer argues 19th century artists from Paul Cezanne to Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein to Walt Whitman anticipated some of the great discoveries about the mind and brain in their ground-breaking art and prose -- realisations that science is only rediscovering now. He´s calling for a radical rethink of truth, art and science. Art can make science better, he reckons. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-02-02 The psychological power of forgiveness in South Africa 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. She joins Natasha Mitchell in a feature interview. Radio National often provides links to external websites to co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-01-26 The Neurobiology of Suicide 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 left behind, might there be a definite 'biology of sadness' too? Also, a bereft father writes to his dead son, and asks 'why?' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-01-19 Behind the scenes: animal experimentation ethics committees 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 happens through dialogue. Good animal welfare equals good science, they argue. But does good science always underpin animal welfare? And, a vet turned animal welfare researcher, now driving the effort to improve methods of pain reduction for lab ani ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-01-12 Julie´s Story: Diary of a brain tumour 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 surgery, in a land whose language she didn´t speak. It was the start of an eight-year saga before her death in 1998, confronting a tumour that wouldn´t go away, and the finality of a passionate young life. This week, Julie´s story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-01-05 The Blind Brain 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 scientists challenge the dogma of a brain rigidly hard-wired for vision. And, Zoltan Torey, blinded 56 years ago in an industrial accident, shares his own wildly vivid experience of an `inner eye´. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2007-12-29 PANIC! A cultural history 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, confronted her own panic attacks, and even enrolled in the clinical trial of a drug for panic disorder, in her quest to excavate our panicky past and present. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2007-12-22 Deep listening: working with Indigenous mental distress '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 barriers and with the historical legacies of mistrust and misunderstanding. Cultural competency is more than sharing a joke. So what is it? And how can psychologists, doctors and others acquire it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2007-12-15 Human Rights and psychiatry (Part 2 of 2): Who speaks for the chained and incarcerated? Chained in a concrete cell, involuntarily medicated, and isolated. Leading psychiatrist Vikram Patel has amassed a series of shocking photos from asylum settings around the globe -- some taken by `inmates´. He´s challenging his own profession to take action. And, the new Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Will it make a difference? In a historic process, self-identified 'psychiatric survivors' have been closely involved in its development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-04-19 Stone Age brains in 21st century skulls Front up to your shrink, and you bring a menagerie of hunter gatherers, anteaters and reptiles from your ancestral past with you. Or so Professor Daniel Wilson and Dr Gary Galambos believe. Both clinical psychiatrists, they provocatively challenge their profession to look to the Darwinian roots of human neuroses, and the evolutionary battleground that is our stone-age brain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website