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All In The Mind

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Delving into all things mental: the latest research and expert commentary on our brains and behaviour.


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2009-11-21 Climate change and the psyche

In his new book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change, top British climate scientist Mike Hulme wants to understand climate change as a psychological and cultural force. Anthropologist Jonathan Marshall has just edited a provocative collection of Jungian perspectives on climate change. They join Natasha Mitchell to discuss mythology, mental ecology and a changing climate....

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[ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-11-14 Michael Gazzaniga: Split brains and other heady tales (highlight from the archives)

Beyond the hype of left brain versus right brain lies the work of acclaimed neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga. His career was forged in the lab of Nobel laureate Roger Sperry, and together their trailblazing experiments have illuminated the differences between the brain´s two hemispheres. Today he´s on the US President´s Bioethics Council, heads up a major project on neuroscience and the law, and is a prolific writer of popular neuroscience....

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[ Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-11-07 The secret life of bacteria - small, smart and thoughtful! [Highlight from the archive]

We can´t survive without them -- and we´ve long underestimated their prowess. Controversially, bacteria could even have cognitive talents that rival our own. Predatory behaviour, cooperation, memory -- Jules Verne eat your heart out -- Natasha Mitchell takes you on a strange adventure into the secret world of microbial mentality....

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[ Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-10-31 The eyes have it! Deep time and future vision

Some call the eyes the window on the soul. Trevor Lamb has been gazing into the eyes of living fossil 'fishy' beings, and deep into evolutionary time to unravel the beginnings of our incredible seeing organ. And what about its future? A myopia explosion in East Asian cities has folk worried, and there's good evidence for a surprising cause....

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[ Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-10-24 Addiction, free will and self control

Heard the one about the psychiatrist, the Supreme Court judge and the philosopher who walked in to a radio studio...? Join Natasha Mitchell and guests in a round-table interrogation of how the brain sciences are changing our understanding of addiction, and the powerful consequences for notions of free will, responsibility and culpability....

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[ Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-10-17 Hearing Voices: stories from the coalface

Mel was dux of her high school with bright prospects. At 25, she needs 24 hour family care, persecuted by a violent voice in her head who she calls Ron. Journalist Tom Tilley takes us to meet Mel and her family for a rare, raw and intimate insight into the experience of hearing voices; and reports on current uncertainty over causes and treatments. Features a special multimedia production. Video Watch a video feature from Triple J's Hack: Hearing Voices. When Ron went mad in Mel's mind she wen...

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[ Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-10-10 You are NOT a Self! - bodies, brains and the nature of consciousness

German philosopher of mind Thomas Metzinger is one of the world´s top researchers on consciousness, instrumental in its renaissance as a respectable problem for scientific enquiry. From out of body experiences to lucid dreaming, anarchic hand syndrome to phantom limbs - his investigations have taken him to places few dare to go. Be spooked, bewildered and amazed....

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[ Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-10-03 Quality Street

Quality Street was the first ABC weekly program dedicated to Poetry. It began in 1946 and ran for 27 years ...ending in 1973. What we are going to hear today are two programs, featuring AD Hope and Kenneth Slessor, from the later years of the show ...from April 1972 and March 1971. My First Aquantance with Poets is from April 1972 and features the then Emeritus Professor of English at the Australian National University, poet and essayist, Alec Derwent Hope. He talks about four poets who had le...

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[ Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-09-26 Dark Science: Pushing the limits of fear, flesh, pain and your psyche.

Join us at the Dark Science night at Sydney´s Powerhouse Museum for a spectacle of side show science and (almost) R-rated research. Suspension artists hang from hooks through their flesh, tattoo artists ply their wares, and don´t miss the spiders and coffins too - it´s the science of fear and pain as you never heard it before...

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[ Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-09-19 The coming of "The Singularity"...or not?

Imagine a future where computers exceed our own intelligence; where problem solving is no longer limited by human thinking - what then? It´s a moment in technological time some call "The Singularity". But how much is technological reality, and how much fantasy? Science writer Mike McRae catches up with A.I researchers and sci fi writers to ponder the possibilities and probabilities....

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[ Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-09-12 Sex, Knowledge and Science (Adelaide Festival of Ideas)

Doing science has no room for gender and agendas, right? It's all about the objective pursuit of facts and truths about nature. Or is it? Acclaimed historian of science Londa Schiebinger, and top philosophers Simon Blackburn and Karen Green join Natasha Mitchell to debate the making of modern science, beards, breasts and how we came to be called mammals!...

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[ Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-01-17 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. Original broadcast: 16/2/2008...

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2009-09-05 Psychogeography: discovering the mental terrain of the city

All in the Mind takes you on an extraordinarily ordinary journey across the mental and physical terrain of a big city. For many the ideal method of urban travel is straight out of Star Trek—teleporting. But in the 21st century city there are flaneurs and commuters savouring their journeys, on foot and by bike. They´re taking in the smells and sounds of back alleys, recalling emotional memories at intersections and celebrating stacks of shipping containers. Join us on a `psychogeographical...

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[ Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-08-29 Minds on the Margins

A life on the streets or behind bars isn´t what we hope for our children. What leads them there? Mental illness? Family breakdown? Economic hardship? Two groundbreaking studies are fundamentally challenging the assumptions we make about our most marginalised, and the state of their mind....

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[ Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-08-22 Many Selves, One Body: Dissociation and early trauma

We all dissociate to a degree—compartmentalising major traumatic experiences in our psyche to protect ourselves. But Dissociation Identity Disorder is the extreme end, where a person might present multiple selves or 'alters' to the world without fully knowing it—swapping clothes, life histories and personalities each time they 'switch'. Don´t miss this firsthand account....

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[ Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-08-15 Art on the Mind: Neuroaesthetics, and the artist as brain scientist!

Acclaimed neuroscientist Semir Zeki pioneered the field of neuroaesthetics to probe the biological basis of the aesthetic experience, art, literature, love and beauty. He thinks scientists have lots to learn about the brain from the works of visual artists and romantic literature. And visit London´s Hayward Gallery, where the Walking in My Mind exhibition has been described as a 'vast humming cranium' as artists unearth their creative process through vast installations....

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[ Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-08-08 Do you read me HAL? Robot wars, moral machines and silicon that cares - Part 2

The theatre of war is changing, radically. With a push towards autonomous, robotic devices capable of killing - should the Laws of War change? One artificial intelligence leader argues machines could be more ethical and humane than humans in the battlefield. But, with thousands of robotic devices already being deployed, is robotics keeping up with ethics?...

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[ Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-08-01 Do you read me HAL? Robot wars, moral machines and silicon that cares - Part 1

Robots are among us. They might be on their way in to childcare and aged care as silicon carers too. And, many thousands have now been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, with billions being invested in the development of entirely autonomous killing agents. Will they fight fairly? Could they be more ethical and humane than humans? Over a series of shows, Natasha Mitchell speaks to leading roboticists and thinkers about the brave new now....

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[ Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-07-25 Madness, modernity and those 'nervous times': Vienna in 1900

Journey to Vienna at the turn of the 20th century and discover the `city of the psyche´ at the centre of Modernism. Described as 'nervous times', anxieties about the alienation of modern urban life inspired a cultural ferment between artists, architects and psychiatrists. From utopian visions of the asylum to the birth of the 'psychological portrait' and 'nerve art', the life of the mind lies at the heart of the story....

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[ Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-07-18 Mind Over Matter at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas

Is the human mind smart enough to ever understand itself? The size of a sesame seed, bees brains are brighter than you think - but do they have a mind? And, if we come up with an artificial intelligence to rival our own, how will we teach it right from wrong? Philosopher Colin Allen and neuroscientist Mandyam Srinivasan join Natasha Mitchell to talk mind, matter, moral machines and more at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas....

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[ Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-07-11 The Mind of the Composer: Part 2 - Maurice Ravel [on air edition] + Unconditional Love [podcast edition]

Acclaimed doctor and broadcaster Lord Robert Winston investigates the mind, music and dementia of composer Maurice Ravel. For copyright reasons, this week's podcast is another feature Love is a Battlefield: When Heidi and Rick Solomon adopted a son raised in the profoundly deprived conditions of a Romanian orphanage, his confronting behaviours sapped every ounce of their unconditional love....

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[ Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-07-04 The Mind of the Composer Part 1: Robert Schumann [on-air edition] + The Moral Mind [podcast edition]

Acclaimed doctor and broadcaster Lord Robert Winston excavates the music and mind of composer Robert Schumann, to see if there was a relationship between the two. Schumann died at just 46 in a mental asylum, with speculation today that he had bipolar disorder. For copyright reasons, this week's podcast is an alternative from our archives, The Moral Mind....

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[ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-06-27 Love is a battlefield: parenting an autistic child

Parents of a severely autistic child can be pushed to breaking point. Do we have unrealistic expectations of what they should be capable of? David and Karen Royko came to make an impossible decision about their son Ben, and share their story with candour and openness....

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[ Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-06-20 David Eagleman: The afterlife, synesthesia and other tales of the senses

Neuroscientist 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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[ Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-06-13 Secrets and lies: The untold story of adoption

Shame, guilt, loss, and grief - giving up a baby at birth can leave a powerful and permanent psychological imprint on a young mother. Countless Australian women without a wedding band were forced to relinquish their babies for adoption. Don´t miss these rare and frank reflections from three women, whose lives were deeply affected by the experience....

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[ Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-06-06 Child soldiers: the Art and arts of healing (Part 2 of 2)

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....

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[ Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-05-30 Child soldiers: the Art and arts of healing (Part 1 of 2)

Born 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. And next week, a remarkable dance and movement therapist helping former child soldiers in Sierra Leone express and heal the traumas of their psyches through their bodies....

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[ Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-05-09 The silent disability: Acquired Brain Injury and the justice system

Impulsive behaviour, anger, mood swings, poor concentration, memory loss. A knock to the head that qualifies as a brain injury can transform your behaviour in unexpected ways. Confronting research suggests acquired or traumatic brain injuries - past and recent - are rife in prison populations, with little to no screening or targeted interventions in place....

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[ Sat, 09 May 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-05-02 Beyond Coma

A woman thought to be in a persistent vegetative state, unresponsive and unconscious to herself and the world, is asked to play a game of 'mental' tennis. Extraordinarily, brain scans reveal she can. In Australia, new ethical guidelines govern the care of people in this devastating situation. Besides new technologies and terminologies -- what prospects for those living frozen lives? This is an archival program originally broadcast last year. Our on air program was a BBC feature, which we cannot...

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[ Sat, 02 May 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]


2009-04-25 Comedy and the psyche

Good comedians push us where few of us dare to go -- we find ourselves rolling in the aisles with shock and delight. Two top-of-the-bill acts at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival reflect on Freud, the comedic psyche and the power of the potty mouth. And, New Yorker columnist and science journalist Jim Holt unravels the rollicking history and philosophy of jokes....

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[ Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +1000 ]

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